Word: martinisms
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With reason. While the U.S. has not experienced anything like the murder of West German Business Leader Hanns-Martin Schleyer last fall or the kidnaping of Belgian Industrialist Baron Edoard Jean Empain last winter, American executives have been frequent targets of violence. Indeed, according to a tally kept by the CIA, more than 40% of the 232 terrorist-connected kidnapings reported since 1970 (almost all in Latin America and Europe) have involved businessmen, one out of five of them Americans...
...Martin's Press; 142 pages...
...becoming harder than ever to keep a transmitted secret. But now the code breakers may finally have met their match. As a result of recent work by Stanford University scientists, ciphers that are for all practical purposes unbreakable can be produced easily. Says Scientific American Mathematics Columnist Martin Gardner: "The breakthrough bids fair to revolutionize the entire field of secret communication...
Stanford's Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman, together with Graduate Student Ralph Merkle, overcame this fundamental obstacle with a dazzlingly simple yet ingenious scheme: they proposed the use of two separate but mathematically related keys-one for encoding a message, the other for decoding it. Thus if a group of intelligence agents or businessmen wanted to communicate secretly with one another, they would not have to send a new key prior to each message. On the contrary, the encrypting key could well be made public in a handbook like a telephone directory. In that way, someone who wanted...
Charpentier: Te Deum, Magnificat (King's College Choir, Cambridge, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Philip Ledger, conductor; Angel). Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704) wrote brilliant religious music for Louis XIV that is seldom heard today. This recording celebrates Charpentier's majestic trumpet flourishes and garlands of intertwined, polyphonic passages. The resplendent voices of the King's Choir-recorded in the King's College 500-year-old chapel, with its perfect acoustics-would have pleased the Sun King...