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Last week part of that version unexpectedly appeared. Pirated excerpts were printed in the newspaper France-Soir -two months ahead of the book's scheduled publication date. Malraux's publisher, Gallimard, duly registered its consternation at the leak, but the 3,500 words that were made public were only a teasing glimpse of what was to come...
...Lethal Leak. Any vacuum tube operating at several thousand volts or more produces detectable X rays. Boiling off the incandescent cathode of the tube, electrons are attracted and accelerated by the high positive voltage on the tube's anode and smash into it at great speed. Struck by the electrons, the atoms of the metallic anode vibrate violently and emit energy in the form of X rays, which can burn the skin, injure the eyes and cause genetic damage...
...tubes to safe levels, manufacturers equip the tubes with metallic shields that absorb most of the radiation. But because of a manufacturing error, the shields inside many of the 24,500-volt G.E. tubes were misaligned. As a result, part of the X rays emitted by the anode could leak through the bottom of the tube. The radiation from the tube, according to the Public Health Service, ranged from ten to 100,000 times more than the rate considered safe...
Battle by Leak. Some of Hilsman's criticisms of the policymaking process are illuminating, such as his discussion of leaks, the "first and most blatant signs of battle" within the Government. He recounts how the crucial struggle over the 1957 Gaither Report on civil defense turned on whether to print 200 secret copies of the report or only two. Proponents of the report figured that if President Eisenhower rejected the findings, one of the 200 "secret" copies would surely be leaked to the press, carrying the battle to the public. They were correct: the larger printing was made...
...capital, attackers go to great lengths to mask their ambush. While Pennzoil planned its takeover of United Gas Corp. a year and a half ago, says Pennzoil Financial Vice President J. H. Young, "my own secretary didn't know what was going on. If there had been any leak, the price of United's stock would have gone so high that we might not have wanted to monkey with it." Even the board of directors was kept in the dark...