Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just who talked to Mike Monroney is his secret, but it is an open secret on Capitol Hill that the fellow Texans, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, have made a deliberate new policy decision: the congressional leadership sees no profit in fighting President Eisenhower's legislative program, will go along pretty much with what the President wants for the rest of the session. And the decision, in turn, has signaled the widest and bitterest split in the Democratic Party in years...
...Reason. Navy Chief Arleigh Burke grabbed a radio telephone to Admiral Withington in Tokyo and learned the embarrassing truth: the Mercator lacked no parts. Its nose and top guns had been dismantled to make room for top-secret radar and infra-red gear, used in mapping and aerial photography. And the damaged Mercator was returning from a reconnaissance mission along the North Korean coast when it was fired upon...
...White House early last week went a secret letter addressed to Nikita Khrushchev. In the most dramatic, though private, Western move since the foreign ministers' conference began. President Eisenhower made a last-ditch personal attempt to break the stalemate in Geneva...
...species in seven hours; male Chinese silkworm moths have been known to home in on intended mates from as far away as seven miles. Since a female under a bell jar will stir nothing in males on the outside only inches away, biologists have concluded that the secret of her charm must be an odor-from a substance so strong that a few molecules send males fluttering into the wind, and so selective that only males of her own species are attracted...
Died. James J. Maloney, 63, longtime (1931-51) U.S. Secret Service agent, and briefly chief (1947-48), who was kicked upstairs to U.S. Treasury law enforcement coordinator after prematurely preparing a Secret Service guard for unsuccessful Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey on election eve in 1948; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Petersburg...