Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viva Eisenhower!" The route-like virtually everything else in the area, from doorways to rooftops-had been canvassed, scouted, cased and haunted by guards and secret-service agents of all the American republics, including a thorough, unobtrusive U.S. Secret Service detail headed by Spanish-speaking Agent John Campion. Ike rode a good part of the 17 miles standing up in the car, waving and smiling. As the 14-car cavalcade neared the outskirts of the city, the crowds got bigger. Bunched six-deep along the streets, the Panamanians shouted "Viva Eisenhower ! Viva Eisenhower...
...daily with Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson, who briefed him on the nationwide Operation Alert. When the warning blasts sounded on Friday morning, Ike met with an "expanded" National Security Council, but later stuck to his deskwork as 10,000 federal employees and officials scooted out of town to secret emergency headquarters...
From then on, as scientific experiment became more and more a closely guarded secret the world over, nobody heard much of anything about Peter Kapitsa. But in the years following World War II, when the menace of the hydrogen bomb loomed large and black, the thoughts of many a scientist who had known Kapitsa harked back to the days of his early and significant experiments on the behavior of hydrogen. It was presumed that if Russia had indeed perfected an H-bomb, Kapitsa's vast knowledge must have been of considerable help. The Russian government granted him a long...
Glued to the Roof. At last Polyak got the pilot's door open only to face a flight mechanic brandishing a Very pistol, and the secret agent, who was furiously loading an automatic. With a comrade's help, Polyak rushed to the attack, while the pilot continued to whirl the plane through its crazy dancing. "Some of the worst of the fight took place while we were glued to the roof of the plane," said Polyak later. At last the lieutenant managed to wrest the gun from the Red agent and fire a shot into the air. Capitulating...
Warmth & Pressure. Rex's secret is surely neither intellectual nor physical. Fellow Actor Orson Welles thinks it comes down to "chic-style without pressure." But stars of Harrison's brilliance are formed, like diamonds, under great pressure. As with diamonds, the process takes time-and warmth. "Rex himself must be a pretty nice guy," Charles Laughton argues, "or he couldn't give out the warmth and delight in life and humanity he does every night. You can't fake that...