Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton...
...Secret Talks. Some Arab moderates have already disclaimed the charge of U.S. involvement in the war, are anxious to maintain their ties to Washington. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba is encouraging stranded tourists to visit his country. Even in Egypt, Foreign Office officials called in several Western European ambassadors last week, secretly asked them how Nasser could mend his relations with Washington without losing face. For all of Nasser's pro-Soviet posturing, the Communist Party is still outlawed in Egypt, and he does not want to plunge irrevocably into the Russian camp...
Spurts of Work. After a year at Harvard, Walter Winshall found that he just wasn't busy enough any more. "All my needs were not satisfied," he explained. He decided to become a secret superstudent. He continued his full-time courses at the law school, but also signed up at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management for another postgraduate degree. At first, neither school knew about his double life. For two years Walter Winshall carried twelve courses a semester between the two schools, devoting many hours at the start of each term to calculating a schedule with...
Last week, after a Boston newspaper disclosed Walter's secret, he shyly insisted that it was "no great feat." Harvard didn't think it was so great either. Apparently annoyed at having the sheepskin pulled over their eyes, Harvard authorities notified him that he would not be recommended for a law degree this year, "pending an investigation." M.I.T. administrators had learned Walter's secret last fall, but had permitted him to continue, even though one official said that he would never have been enrolled if authorities had known of his Harvard enrollment. "It just would have been...
...secret is liquid air-a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen supercooled to - 318°F. It is pumped into vacuum-insulated Dewar tanks, sophisticated thermos bottles that protect the icy liquid from the warmth of the surrounding water and at the same time keep the diver's back and shoulders from freezing. From the tanks, the liquid air is piped through warming coils that heat it until it expands into breathable gas. Only hazard: since liquid air allows the diver to stay under far longer, he must surface slowly, in stages, to avoid the bends...