Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sign Here. For months, under the supervision of the Ministers of Commerce and the Interior, the police dug for evidence. One big break came when a secret service agent managed to pry out of a Swiss bank the name of an official who regularly commutes to Spain to see his clients. Early this month the official was arrested while on one of his trips, and the police soon had enough information to swoop down upon the office of a notary public in Barcelona. There they found a list of 1,363 names, each accompanied by a secret account number...
...week the Spanish borders were closed to all those named. A letter went out to each, inviting him to drop in at police headquarters at the earliest convenience. As the suspects arrived, each got two pieces of paper to sign. One contained the government's reckoning of his secret accounts, the other an agreement to bring the money home within 30 days. The police were always polite-but they were also deadly accurate. Said one man of his own account: "They had me down to my last centime...
...whom is Joseph Rivera, Geneva director of the Société de Banque Suisse, the other a top, unnamed official of the Union de Banques Suisse. For Switzerland, whose banks have for so long prospered in peace or war (other people's wars) on the secret accounts of the high and mighty, Franco's arrest of Swiss bankers was a rude and unexpected blow. Said an official of Société de Banque Suisse: "We are taking a very serious view. The matter concerns all banks and our entire banking system...
...graduating class of the R.A.F. College at Cranwell. England, Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, chief of the service's flight training program, confided: "You are going to be passed out by a mountebank who never passed in." The Atcherley secret: on their first try for Cranwell, Sir Richard and his twin brother David (killed in a 1952 air crash) flunked their physicals, he for weak eyes, David for a tricky kidney. Two months later they tried again. "In a contingency of this sort," said the marshal, "there are obvious advantages in being twins. So when we returned, with very...
...time (including dancing marionettes with 27 strings apiece), the art requires less finger dexterity than uncanny ability to project voice and body down from the overhead "bridge" onto the stage. "Some people can just throw themselves straight down the strings," says Cora. "I can't explain the secret. It's dancing, acting, singing, all wrapped...