Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business," snapped Mrkva. "I'm interested in money." Pisk offered to give Mrkva and his family a free trip to Czechoslovakia, pay off Mrkva's mortgage and finance an operation on his daughter's spinal curvature. Mrkva, who had kept the FBI informed from the start, fed his Red friends such unclassified items as the State Department phone book, press releases, and previously cleared administrative reports...
...first new hymnal for Methodists since 1935, the revision was ordered by the church's General Conference in 1960. To find out what worshipers wanted, the editors, headed by the Rev. Carlton Young of Dallas, polled 12,800 ministers and laymen, fed their answers into a computer. The result is a songbook that neatly balances tradition and innovation; among the 539 entries are 122 new texts, 119 new tunes...
Albert E. Holland and Fe del Mundo first met in the internment camp at Manila's Santo Tomas University in early 1942, just after the city had fallen to the Japanese. Fresh from the well-fed U.S. business colony there, he was still a husky 195-pounder, determined to talk the camp authorities into improving the lot of his fellow internees. She was tiny and frail, only 5 ft. 1 in. and under 90 lbs., a Filipino doctor with a brand-new practice. Dr. del Mundo, who had received much of her medical training in the U.S., was determined...
Tillinghast talks the sort of language that comes out of a well-fed computer. "My toughest job," he says, "is to figure out with some precision what the growth of the airline industry is going to be and then to order the right amount and kind of equipment. Profitability lies in a very few points of load factor...
...Buck Rogers-style Army "jet-flying belt" that is expected to transport a soldier over the treetops at 60 m.p.h. for as far as ten miles. Weighing a total of only some 150 Ibs., propelled by a Lilliputian fanjet engine and fed by a back-riding fuel depot of seven to ten gallons of kerosene, the new jet is aimed at superseding a current experimental backpack that is operated by rocket thrust and has a range of only 860 ft. Though it will be a year before the new system can be proved feasible, scientists at Bell Aerosystems Co., which...