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...border from Costa Rica for the purpose, Nicaraguan rebels planned to ambush Tacho after a reception at the U.S. embassy residence outside Managua. When a party guest happened to notice suspicious movements outside the residence, and Tacho's troops rushed to investigate, the ambushers fled. Next day. one plotter lost his nerve and told all to the police...
Lavrenty P. Beria, a man who ordered the death of millions, was himself put to death last week. After a secret trial that lasted five days, the Kremlin announced that this "frenzied, insolent plotter . . . this contemptible Judas" had been found guilty of murder, espionage, treason, sabotage and perversion. He was condemned to the "highest degree of punishment, with confiscation of all property and removal of all titles and decorations" (seven Medals of the Soviet Union, five Orders of Lenin...
...Star Plotter. Astronomers think large thoughts, but astronomy also involves a tremendous amount of the dullest kind of drudgery. The most tedious job is figuring out the true position of stars from their swarming images on photographic plates. ,The Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University has developed an electronic machine to do most of this task. An operator guides a photoelectric cell to a star image on the plate. The cell automatically finds the center of the image and punches holes in an I.B.M. card. Then an electronic computer observes the holes in the card, figures out the true...
...decades ago, along with another dancer named Helene and a tall, hard Rumanian barmaid called Nelly. But they knew nothing, and were released. Then the cops went looking for-but could not find-General Fazlollah Zahedi, head of the Retired Officers' Association and an avowed anti-Mossadegh plotter. The government offered 500,000 rials (about $15,000) for information, and promised amnesty to anyone producing Afshartous...
...reflection plotter" for the Navy, which enables navigators to keep track on a screen of all nearby vessels...