Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Above all, the nurses seemed enthusiastically dedicated to their calling. Their natural leader was Gloria Jean Davy, 22, one of six children of a Dyer, Ind., steel-plant foreman, and a onetime national "Sweetheart of the Future Farmers of America," who had recent ly been elected president of the Illinois Student Nurses Association; Gloria planned to join the Peace Corps after finishing training in August. Athletic Suzanne Bridget Farris, 21, one of three children of a Chicago Transit Authority superintendent, hoped to specialize in pediatric nursing, was engaged to be married next spring to the brother of another nurse, Mary...
Eventually, after a man named Jifi Opatrny (which means "George Careful") had taken over as Mrkva's contact, Mrkva was told to plant a listening device in a bookcase in one of the State Department offices used by the director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs...
Puzzled by its sudden silence, Opatrny told Mrkva that the Czechs wondered why the bug had worked perfectly for 20 minutes and then stopped. Mrkva said he had accidentally dropped the mechanism. Opatrny then ordered him to get it back since the Czechs hoped to plant a similar device in the office of Under Secretary George Ball. Said he: "Everyone wants to know what is wrong with...
...their cars are serviced. "When the mechanic goes underneath," says an executive of the DEMAG heavy-machinery works, "I go with him. I must see what he is doing." Steel Magnate Alfried Krupp takes three days off each year to drive his Porsche 911 from the Ruhr to the plant in Stuttgart, where he stands by in overalls while his car is being tuned. Few Germans will lend their cars even to their closest friends...
Joint Meeting. To the Danes, there is nothing strange about this situation. After all, when Tuborg last year constructed a new main office building at its plant at Hellerup, Carlsberg paid half the price of the project...