Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Barnard College for girls had always expected big things of Judith Coplon. She majored in history, was managing editor of the college paper, graduated cum laude in 1943. Said her class yearbook: "Deeply philosophical about the fundamentals of life ... an astute analytical mind lurks behind a baby face and emotional brown eyes." Judith joined the economic warfare section of the Department of Justice, rose fast enough to justify her classroom promise. Her job was analyzing the records of foreign agents registering for activities...
...father, Samuel Coplon, a retired toy merchant, was paralyzed. Samuel Coplon used to be known as the "Santa Claus of the Adirondacks": he gave away thousands of toys to country kids at Christmas. One night last week, the Coplons waited in vain for Judith. For when Judith arrived at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, she did not go straight home. On her devious journey, she was followed by agents of the FBI. Judith had become suspect of dealing with agents of the U.S.S.R...
...shadowed her to Manhattan's upper West Side. There she met a stocky, stern-eyed man in a dark overcoat and hat. For an hour and a half, without a betraying sign of recognition, they scurried by subway and bus around crowded Manhattan in an old familiar technique for shaking off shadowers. Finally, under the rumbling Third Avenue elevated, on the squalid lower East Side, the FBI agents closed in, arrested both of them. In Judith's purse was a thin, flat package. It contained, said the FBI, typewritten notes abstracted from confidential U.S. documents...
Disbelieving Mother. The man in the dark coat was Valentin A. Gubichev, 32, a Russian engineer, who came to the U.S. in 1946 as a United Nations employee, assigned to help build its new Manhattan headquarters. The two of them, said the FBI, had already held previous "clandestine meetings." The Russian and the girl from Barnard were charged in Federal Court with conspiring to steal U.S. documents. In Washington, the Russian embassy loudly demanded the release of Gubichev. But the U.N., acting quicker, had already suspended the Russian, said that his U.N. job gave him no diplomatic immunity. When they...
...Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. utilized atomic energy to lay the two-ton cornerstone of its new building in Manhattan; a miniature nuclear reactor split ten U-235 atoms generating an electrical impulse which burned a ceremonial ribbon, touched off a magnesium flare and caused a chain hoist to lower the stone one foot into position...