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...Congress passed the Federal Communications Act, Section 605 of which provided that "no person not being authorized by the sender shall intercept any communication and divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning ... to any person." Penalty: $10,000 fine or two years' imprisonment, or both. The history of the section indicates that Congress did not intend it to regulate wiretapping; the wording was lifted out of the Radio Act of 1927, where the apparent intent was to prevent pirating of messages by rival communications companies. But the Supreme Court applied Section 605 to wiretapping...
...newspaper saying, "Raise hell and sell papers," the papers were sensational, slapdash crusaders. Even before the U.S. got into World War I, Rathom was convinced that German diplomats were spies. He liked to brag that he planted secretaries in the offices of high German diplomats to intercept secret correspondence, and used Secret Service men as reporters. Over and over, other dailies around the U.S. carried Page One stories of German intrigue that began, "Tomorrow the Providence Journal will say ..." But Rathom's enterprise got him in trouble with Assistant Navy Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt. After the papers...
...development of radar-controlled guns. When the radar is locked to a target, an electronic computer figures out the target's distance, speed, direction and course. It knows all the answers and can swing the gun so that any shell fired from it will intercept the course of the target in midair. The actual firing can be done either automatically-at the rate of 45 rounds a minute-or by one of the crew. The shells have proximity fuses that explode them as soon as they feel hardware ahead...
Harvard-and-Oxford-trained, lanky Diplomat Cabot is a member of the famous Boston family. His most publicized diplomatic success occurred in 1930 when, as third secretary in the Dominican Republic, he raced into the hinterland in his Oakland runabout to intercept an advancing revolutionary army and win its leaders to a plan for averting bloody warfare in the island. Rising rapidly thereafter from one Latin American post to another, he acted as chargé d'affaires in Buenos Aires in 1946, before moving on to such international hotspots as Belgrade, Shanghai and Helsinki...
Somehow, Washington kept patience and hope. His capacity for self-control was enormous: when the news of Benedict Arnold's treason reached him, he sent his aide, Colonel Alexander Hamilton, 24, riding off to intercept the traitor, calmly ate dinner, did his best to comfort Arnold's hysterical wife, and within three hours revamped the defenses of Arnold's exposed post-the Hudson narrows at West Point -so that the British could not storm it. When mutinies broke out among Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops in 1781, Washington suppressed them sternly, not because he was harsh...