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Rarely in his career as a spy had U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers been under thicker wraps than those that enveloped him last week. Although the President described him as "a free agent," he remained in a top-secret hideout under the vigilant custody of the Federal Government. Questioning by a board headed by Federal Judge E. Barrett Prettyman, plus intensive analysis of his account by CIA agents, had convinced the Government that Powers acquitted himself well as a Russian captive. But Powers' scheduled emergence from hiding was postponed while CIA Boss John McCone, with the Prettyman report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Near Miss | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...recent weeks, CBS has got into difficulties with French authorities for showing a TV interview with Salan in his Algerian hideout, and an NBC reporter has not been allowed back into France because of a talk on France he gave while home in the States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 26, 1962 | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

Such episodes are rare in the staid life of the Harvard community, however. And although Leverett House was once branded as a dope den by a Boston tabloid, and Confidential detailed the perversions of Claverly, the University is far from a hideout for perverts and criminals. Crime has had its big moments, though...

Author: By Rudolf V. Ganz jr., | Title: Short Journal of Harvard Crime | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...adequate for a 48-hour stay, cost all of $30. In Malibu, Missile Scientist and Electronics Manufacturer Bernard Benson, his wife and seven children had a $15,000 shelter built to withstand any bomb damage but a direct hit. Along with food and water, Benson has stocked his hideout with beer and a 1925 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A nuclear attack, says he, will set civilization back at least one generation; with the 1925 Britannica to tell him how, he will start life over again at the national norm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: All Out Against Fallout | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...told that the New English Biblemen wanted to change the accurate and acceptable "den of thieves" to "gangsters hideout" but were afraid the phrase lacked permanency; they settled instead for "robbers' cave." Such a re-reading is undoubtedly a conscious break with the past; it is also wanton destruction...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: The New English Bible: Truth in Bureaucratese | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

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