Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard. By 17, he had taught himself Morse code and snared a job pounding a telegraph key for the American Marconi Co. He first tasted fame on a night the world would remember-April 14, 1912. Sarnoff picked up a message from the British steamship Titanic. "Hit an iceberg," it read. "Sinking fast." For 72 hours, he stayed at the key, guiding rescue ships and relaying names of survivors. Thereafter, his rise at Marconi was swift. In 1919 RCA absorbed the company. Two years later, RCA Board Chairman Owen D. Young, somewhat awed by Sarnoff's knowledge of wireless...
...many critics, the Central Intelligence Agency is something of an iceberg in the warm estuaries of democracy. Since hermetic secrecy is an endemic and essential characteristic of espionage, the CIA is mostly invisible, largely inscrutable, and publicly unaccountable. Yet this very immunity to outside inspection has long irked William Fulbright and many members of his Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who charge that the CIA often operates independently of the Administration and on occasion even shapes U.S. foreign policy. Fulbright's committee -which has the reputation on Capitol Hill of not being able to keep any secret...
...Astor? Though Shriver knew from the first that the poverty campaign would be controversial, he did not realize how implacable his critics would be. On occasion, he says wryly, "it makes me feel like Mrs. Astor on the Titanic. As the iceberg crashed through the ship's walls, she said, 'I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous...
...that the trim, 155-lb. bachelor enjoys more than his job is his bayside home in East Hampton, L.I. There, decked out in an ankle-length apron, he putters happily around his professionally equipped kitchen. A precise and sparing eater himself, Claiborne hates and rarely uses marzipan, marshmallows or iceberg lettuce, serves rigidly small portions to a constant stream of guests who range from curious neighbors to the giants of the profession...
Last week the system was labeled "an iceberg of corruption" in a 515-page report compiled by Pennsylvania's Assistant Attorney General Arlen Specter, 35, a liberal Democrat turned liberal Republican, who also happens to be running for election as Philadelphia's district attorney against Incumbent James C. Crumlish Jr. Predictably, Democrat Crumlish blasted Specter's report as purely political. All the same, it was a well-documented shocker-the work of 27 state investigators who toiled for ten months at the request of Attorney General Walter E. Alessandroni...