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...component of any Le Carré novel is its jargon-the trade terms used by secret service personnel. His invented spy lingo is so persuasive that it has convinced readers that spies actually talk that way. As a matter of fact, sometimes they do. According to their inventor, such Le Carré words as mole and honey trap have been co-opted by British and Russian spies; others are rapidly entering the language. Among them...
ALFRED NOBEL was a brilliant but psychotic inventor, tortured by the fact that the dynamite he invented blew up his own brother. He was an unscrupulous and successful capitalist whose companies became one of the earliest multinational organizations selling the invention which, they claimed, would end war through its deterrent effect. Driven by intense feelings of guilt. Nobel left most of his fortune to endow the prizes that bear his name, with special attention paid to the award for peace...
DIED. Edward E. Kleinschmidt, 101, inventor of the Teletype machine used to transmit news around the globe; of heart disease; in Canaan, Conn. A tinkerer as a child, Kleinschmidt was only 15 when he began work on the Teletype, an invention that eventually made him a multimillionaire. Among his 100-odd patented inventions: the stock market ticker, an automatic fishing reel, a police radio-teleprinter and a macaroni-twisting machine...
...Carleton Gajdusek, Sc.D.. Nobel prizewinner in medicine. Leopold Godowsky Sc.D.. co-inventor of Kodachrome film...
Almost simultaneously, though, a potential savior of the spray can appeared: none other than Robert Abplanalp, the Yonkers, N.Y., inventor and friend of Richard Nixon who devised the aerosol spray valve in the first place and made millions on his invention. Abplanalp showed off another invention that he claims to have worked out in six months of scrawling on notepads: a valve trade-named Aquasol that uses a mixture of water and butane gas as a propellant. Besides getting rid of the fluorocarbons, Aquasol has another advantage: the butane propellant is not in solution but floats in pressurized form...