Word: leaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some suspect, Bergaust was the happy recipient of an Army leak, it was timely, for at week's end the Air Force was checking weather reports preparatory to launching its own IRBM, the Thor...
...editors for stifling news on the pretext of "security," the Defense Department last week issued a report by its own special committee on the problem. The most explosive recommendation: reporters should be summoned to "a grand jury investigation" to divulge their source in the case of any serious "leak" of information. This was so certain to infuriate the press that Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson pointedly tagged it with "serious reservations" as he released the report...
...atomic bomb explosion. FBI agents at once paid a visit to the magazine's editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. The description of the bomb was so accurate and came so far in advance of any public pronouncement about the A-bomb, that the government feared a security leak...
...filling station. Dreamboat Groaner Elvis Presley showed that he can swing his fists as adroitly as his pelvis. Pulling up in his li'l ol' unpretentious white $10,000 Continental Mark II, Presley groaned a request to have his car's gas tank checked for a leak. Fumes were hurting his eyes, like. As the manager complied, a mob of gawkers and autograph hounds materialized, and traffic was soon jammed. Deaf to the manager's pleas to hit the trail, The Pelvis ecstatically kept on signing things thrust at him. Temper frayed, the manager bopped...
...turned out, Ruppar may have been guilty of incredibly bad judgment, but not of tipping off the board's decision. He had bought his stock on the morning of Aug. 3, a day after the leak, when Northeast stock was already rising fast, on a tip from a broker friend. Ruppar got 500 shares at 10½, later picked up another 500 at around 12. After holding the stock for several days, he sold in the middle of a profit-taking drop, actually lost an estimated $1,600 on the deal. That left...