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Sitting in the backseat of a U.S. marshal's car, Ronald Pelton betrayed little emotion last week as he arrived for the start of his espionage trial in a Baltimore courthouse. For 14 years, Pelton worked in a low-level computer job at the top secret National Security Agency. He had a knowledge of Russian, access to sensitive intelligence data and, in later years, money troubles. After Pelton left the NSA in 1979, according to federal authorities, he started selling information to the Soviets. Accused spies like Pelton have been a cause of growing concern to the U.S. intelligence community...
Winthrop Senior Tutor Lee Pelton said yesterday that the College specifically prohibits the use of candles in dormitory rooms in the student handbook. He added that he will remind Winthrop residents of the regulation in a House newsletter...
Acting House Master Stophen Bernardi and Senior Tutor Lee Pelton were unaware of the incident, but Margaret Chamberlain, a resident tutor, said that fire alarms went of in both the Standish and Gore portions of Winthrop. All residents were told to eat their meal at other Houses...
Clustered inside the wedge-shaped steel-and-glass pavilion are 42 TV screens connected to 42 Sony videodisc machines, which are hooked up to 23 Apple II computers. Nine video stations on the ground floor explain the meaning of 480 energy-related terms. Don't know what a Pelton wheel is? Press the word on the screen, and presto!, a swirling water turbine appears. A different set of screens shows a colorful cutaway drawing of a house. Wondering how to make your home energy-efficient? Just touch the attic, for example, and watch a demonstration of how to insulate...
...stylishly dressed party of eight lunching at a center table in Chicago's tony Ritz-Carlton restaurant is about to start the second course. As white-aproned waiters whisk in artichauts vinaigrette, the guests exchange amiable chitchat. Dark-haired August Walker Pelton regales the group with an anecdote about Princess Caroline of Monaco. "She tells me," he confides, "that when anyone in their family has elbows on the table, her grandmother jabs them with a fork." In the lull that follows, Bridget Dunham chews meditatively on her water goblet, picks her teeth, then dives under the table after...