Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief. General Thomas White, as an example (which applies equally to the other service heads), spends most of his week as Air Force Chief of Staff, working on Air Force problems, expounding Air Force doctrine, fighting Air Force battles. But then comes the moment when he walks into a secret Pentagon room, sits down at a table with the three other members of the J.C.S., and puts on his other hat. As a member of the Joint Chiefs, he is expected to help in taking collective action toward a U.S. war plan that can stand as a guide to budgeting...
...identity of the mystery guest was no secret: he was the meandering Marquess of Milford Haven, 38, divorced since 1954 and long a close pal of Hungarian-born Cineminx Eva (Ten Thousand Bedrooms) Bartok. The mystery was why he had visited Eva, 28, at her mother's cottage in a London suburb two days in a row last week. Also there to greet Milford Haven was Eva's mystery moppet Deana, born to her last October in London almost a year after her divorce from her fourth husband. Eva had refused to name the father-though brightly adding...
Darkest Before Dawn. The doctors lured the student volunteers with a graduated pay scale: $20 for staying awake the first 24 hours, $25 for the second and $30 for the third day. Unlike the victims of secret police, the students were subjected to no emotional stress, could pass the time as they pleased-reading, listening to the radio, playing games, talking. Relays of monitors watched them throughout the 72 hours, ready to nudge any who dozed. Remarkably, none...
...free-and-easy laws aimed at making Havana a strong Eastern competitor for the West's Las Vegas. Batista's government lent $6,000,000 toward the $14 million that the hotel cost. Exactly who supplied how much of the rest of the money is a deep secret; the directors include Toronto Hotelman Harry Smith. Edward Levinson of Las Vegas' Fremont, and a Cuban Senator whose brother happens to be a Cabinet minister...
During the supposedly secret conference, Charlie Halleck and Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart bellowed their defiance across the table at Indiana's Republican State Chairman Robert Matthews and Governor Harold W. Handley, who is hungrily eying the U.S. Senate seat that William E. Jenner will put up for grabs next year. Roared Senator Capehart: "We're split right down the middle. All you do is beat the brains out of the Eisenhower Administration. All you do is assure the election of a Democratic President in 1960." To State Chairman Matthews, who all but read Eisenhower Republican Halleck...