Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, Frank Elli, now 41, had been in the pen on one rap or another eleven times since he was mustered out of the Navy 20 years ago. Apparently it occurred to him late that crime was not his true calling. Through a correspondence course offered by the University of Minnesota, Elli discovered that he had a greater talent for writing. The resulting novel, a tense, minute-by-minute account of a prison riot, shows that he has a born storyteller's way with a yarn...
Still, it is a fair start toward a writing career. Elli is now on parole and working on a new book. Meanwhile, Hollywood is offering him $150,000 for the movie rights to The Riot. Obviously, the ex-convict has found that the word is mightier than the pen...
...latest Hanoi war commentaries are tentatively coming to terms with that reality. One speaks of "a kind of flexible, kaleidoscopic battleground," another of eventual triumph "through the accumulation of many small victories." A Politburo member writing under the pen name of Cuu Long, meaning "nine dragons," has gone so far as to redefine Mao's Phase Three as "the phase of guerrilla warfare coupled with concentrated combat." To some well-placed Western experts, that could be translated as preparation for a retreat to the hit-and-hide tactics of the Communist guerrilla-without loss of face or too obvious...
...will point at the bug. Another detector resembles a small transistor radio, but the high-pitched whine from its speaker dies down as its whip antenna is swept toward a hidden bug. For those who do not want to bother locating bugs, a scrambling device concealed in a fountain pen can generate static in any radio-frequency bug within 100 ft., making it impossible for an electronic eavesdropper to listen to or record any transmission...
Barely 30 minutes off the operating table, the nation's least patient patient signaled for a pen and scrawled a message to his doctors on the back of a medical form: "Tell me something." The surgeons obediently described the operations to remove a polyp from his throat and repair an abdominal hernia, but their fill-in was far too sketchy for Lyndon Johnson. "Tell me all that took place," he commanded in a second note. Thus began what will doubtless rate as the most exposed convalescence in presidential history...