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Poker Games. A witness at the House Committee probe stirred the original tempest. Martin Kaiser, a Maryland electronics manufacturer, told the committee that he shipped bugging devices to the FBI through the U.S. Recording Company, which since 1938 has supplied the FBI with electronic surveillance equipment. Owned by Joseph Tait, the firm operated as a "cut-out," or front, for the FBI'S purchase of eavesdropping equipment; the idea was to prevent targets of wiretapping-such as gangsters or spies-from learning the bureau's capabilities simply by examining government purchasing records. Kaiser said he discovered that Tait...
...death in 1945. Yet in the 1960s the U.S. spent about $34.5 billion on space programs, culminating in the 1969 Apollo moon landing. In the 1970s the country will spend almost the same amount ($34.1 billion), overwhelming proof that Goddard's dream still has considerable thrust. Two Viking probes are en route to Mars, a Venus probe is scheduled for 1978, and a reusable space shuttle will go aloft the following year...
...internal department probe was a charade. Sheehan had, in fact, played to Kissinger's ample ego by writing a letter to Assistant Secretary Alfred L. Atherton Jr., who heads the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. It was full of encomiums about the Secretary and asked for Kissinger's cooperation in the author's research. Sheehan thought he was "laying it on a little thick," but sent the letter anyway. Atherton showed it to Kissinger, who told him to help Sheehan. Atherton preserved the fiction of not disseminating classified documents by reading aloud to Sheehan...
...current probe, Prosecutor Woodcock got court permission to exhume five of the bodies. Then he sent tissue samples off to different specialists, some of whom used detection techniques so subtle they can identify a substance weighing only a trillionth of a gram...
...number of essays illustrate the power of Marcus's methodology. In "Freud and Dora," Marcus uses literary techniques to probe psychoanalytical problems in one of Freud's case histories, elucidating his ambivalencies toward his patient and his as yet imperfect understanding of the transference relationship from the internal inconsistencies and shifts in tone of the writing. And in "Literature and Social Theory," Marcus draws out the connection between a certain style of narration and the presence of a functionalist, organicist social theory in George Eliot's fiction. By making this connection, Marcus was able to uncover the roots of both...