Word: hughes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Book by Hugh Wheeler...
CORRESPONDENTS: John F. Stacks (Chief); B. William Mader, Jack E. White (Deputies) Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey National Political Correspondent: Laurence I. Barrett...
...hardball style of practice. Finley, Kumble started in 1968 with a handful of attorneys and a then novel intent to operate like a business. This year, with offices in 13 U.S. cities and London, it has boasted 684 lawyers, including such prominent names as former New York Governor Hugh Carey and former Senators Paul Laxalt and Russell Long. Plagued by years of in-house feuding and a bank debt of some $60 million, however, the firm may soon be better known as Finley, Crumble. Partners have been huddling to consider shrinking the firm, while denying they are on the verge...
...title of Hugh Whitemore's elegant and poignant biographical play contains at least four layers of meaning. Taken together, they explain what intrigued Whitemore in the life of Alan Turing, an obscure if influential British mathematician. The most obvious reference is to Turing's cracking the Nazi Enigma code, credited by Winston Churchill as a key intelligence feat of World War II. Confronted with an enemy that could change its code in a trice, almost infinitely and randomly, via a complex encrypting machine, Turing outwitted the device by building a sort of early computer. A second allusion...
CORRESPONDENTS: John F. Stacks (Chief); B. William Mader, Jack E. White (Deputies) Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey National Political Correspondent: Laurence I. Barrett...