Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Search for a Leak. The Star played Fryklund's story on Page One under the headline AIR FORCE HITS TFX PROBE TACTICS. The story irritated Arkansas' Senator John McClellan, the subcommittee chairman, since he felt it reflected on his staff...
Practical experience with Relay, the communications satellite built by RCA, was no help. Relay, which went into orbit on Dec. 13, refused to work properly right from the start; a defective part let most of the power leak out of its storage battery. But Relay still obeyed commands. It was told to throw switches to isolate the faulty transponder (transmitter-receiver). Solar cells were able to recharge the satellite's battery. Last week Relay was in operation, using its spare transponder...
...Scotland's Jimmy Clark, who needed a victory in South Africa to beat Hill for the title, almost got it: with the race three-quarters over, he led by 25 sec.-only to be forced to the pits when his grass green Lotus sprang an oil leak. Hill's victory (four firsts, two seconds, one fourth in nine races) marked the first time that a British driver has won the world championship behind the wheel of a British car-and Clark, winding up second in the final standings with his Lotus, made it Britain's year...
What is really disturbing in l'affaire Stevenson [Dec. 14] is the fact that something said in a top-secret council can leak out to anyone, including "Old Pal" Bartlett. Any time such a council meets, differences of opinion are expected, but when a final decision is made, it must be accepted and carried...
...Kennedy is guilty of no gross censorship, he is at least chargeable, in the opinion of his critics, with an array of annoying misdemeanors. He has betrayed a chronic tendency to regard the press as a personal tool of high utility. He has refined the use of the calculated leak, a common Capitol device. Among the White House press corps, his favorites may fluctuate, but its top echelons generally include newsmen who are also close Kennedy friends. And the President has become a past master at choosing the right reporter to loft trial balloons...