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...reason that small businesses do not land contracts more often, argues Rod, is that they do not find out what the military services want and then develop the products. Instead, they go to the Small Business Administration and plead their smallness. Rod set out aggressively to cultivate younger officers in the Pentagon, to find out service needs, and in 1956, the Air Force asked Acoustica if it had any ideas for the Atlas. Rod thought that the sensor would be just the thing. To get on the master bidders' list of defense contractors for other company products, he inundated...
They had Powers' "confession," too ("I plead guilty to the fact that I have flown over Soviet territory"), but any suggestion that his prompt admission marked him as a defector was quickly denied in Washington. In an age of such sophisticated third-degree methods as "truth se rums," agents are taught to recognize the inevitable - and talk. Powers, for one, had little to tell beyond his own personal history. He had been trained as a pilot, not a spy. His instruments did his snooping...
...Eric's kidnapers. Another letter arrived; there were at least two husky-voiced phone calls with additional instructions. France's press was beside itself (announced Paris' tabloid Paris-Jour: "See pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 7, 14, 15"). Roland Peugeot went on TV to plead tearfully for his son's return: "Everyone who has children and loves them will understand me. I have not brought charges and have asked that the kidnapers not be trailed...
...obscurity, Chessman inevitably became a symbolic cause for opponents of capital punishment (see box), all the more so because he was not convicted of killing anybody. French Singer Georgie Vienette, official of an anti-capital-punishment organization, traveled from Paris to Governor Brown's office in Sacramento to plead personally for Chessman's life. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Nelson Hungria, principal author of the Brazilian penal code (no capital punishment), declared that "Caryl Chessman is the most eloquent assurance of the need to wipe out once and for all the death penalty, that ugly stain on civilization." Much...
...chamberlains know they are viewed as villains by most Japanese. In defense, they plead that they are responsible...