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When King kept indirect contacts with Levison despite this advice, Robert Kennedy "reluctantly" acceded to Hoover's plea to bug King's hotel rooms. That failed to prove that King was under the influence of Communists but provided a lode of scandalous data about King's philandering. The FBI wasted no time in circulating gamy samples of the recordings to Government officials, friendly journalists and even King's wife in an attempt to persuade King to withdraw from an active role in the movement...
...House Foreign Affairs Committee is already investigating legal aspects of the arms shipments, and its members can expect to be joined soon by many other congressional probers. They will be mining a rich lode: the list of laws that might have been broken by the arms shipments to Iran, the diversion of funds to the contras, or both, is a long...
...identifying number on a recovered silver bar with one listed in the ship's manifest in the Seville archives. But because the cargo was scattered over nine linear miles, it took Fisher until 1985--and a total of 6,500 magnetometer hits--to identify what he calls the "mother lode," the ; main body of the ship's cargo. Even then, retrieving the treasure was difficult. The deeper waters off the Florida Keys are murky, the bottom heavily silted. Again, technology provided the solution. Several years earlier, Feild had devised a huge pair of fittings that resemble and are called mailboxes...
...Raymond, a mechanical engineer from M.I.T. and the founder of Benthos in North Falmouth, the world's leading maker of oceanographic equipment, suggests that Massachusetts has an equation for success. "There's a mother lode of talent in this state," says Raymond. "Combine that with the liberal ethic and you have a society that stimulates creativity." That is precisely what Governor Dukakis wants to accomplish: to make the state work "so that the extraordinary becomes a permanent fixture." For a state that has traditionally made the extraordinary ordinary, that should not be so hard a task. -- By Lance Morrow. Reported...
...money, he had to fulfill a number of complicated conditions that included presenting a specially numbered diplomatic passport to the banks and cutting deals with certain tribal chiefs. Outside funds were necessary to pay expenses incurred as Blay-Miezah wheeled and dealed to get to the mother lode...