Word: secreting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huai, was dismissed as Defense Minister, as were two of his top aides, because they had protested the use of troops in labor battalions. Into the chief of staff's post went General Lo Jui-ching (TIME cover, March 5, 1956), bloody-minded former boss of the secret police, who could be depended upon to ferret out any more "incorrect thinking" among the military...
...accused rebels. But after only the second session, two doctors showed up at Castro's cell one night and signed a certificate stating that he was sick and couldn't attend the court sessions. He was held in solitary confinement for 76 days, then brought to a secret trial at Civil Hospital, with neither the press nor counsel permitted...
Children at Play. Aalto makes no secret of his views on the state of architecture. The endless repetition of glass squares and synthetic metals, he maintains, has become a dead-end street. "Grownup children play with curves and tensions they do not control," he snorts. "It smells of Hollywood. The human being becomes forgotten." His office now has projects for a new cultural center for Wolfsburg, Germany (home of the Volkswagen works), a museum in Denmark, a semicircular apartment house in Bremen and a new opera house for Essen. Says U.S. Architect Eero Saarinen, himself the son of a famed...
...started to work on the small car in secret. It was fairly simple to roll down a tight security curtain because each of G.M.'s semi-sovereign divisions is constantly tinkering on its own far-out projects that it keeps under wraps to protect them from competitors or even from rival divisions...
...another year Cole labored over his baby. Not only did he design thousands of parts, but he had to get cost estimates for each one from hundreds of suppliers -without springing the secret. His sales strategy was to outflank corporate channels, sell the small car directly to G.M.'s hard-reigning president, Harlow Curtice. But sharp, inquiring "Red" Curtice was a tough man to sell. To do it, Cole would have to present him with a prototype car and an argument virtually without flaw-at a carefully selected time when the market was just beginning to ripen. Cole well...