Word: toth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leave after a six-day ordeal that illustrated how seriously the Russians are taking their pledge at Helsinki to "increase the opportunities for journalists to communicate personally with their sources." In an action that was unprecedented since the Stalin era, the KGB forced Los Angeles Times Correspondent Robert Toth to undergo long sessions of hostile and often threatening interrogation in Moscow's dread Lefortovo prison...
...Toth had apparently been tricked into a street-corner meeting with a Russian scientist who insisted on handing him an article he claimed was on parapsychology and telepathy. Five KGB officers pounced on Toth and accused him of collecting information of a "political and military nature." Toth, who has made use of dissident sources for articles on Soviet science during his three-year stay in Moscow, was later interrogated about gathering information from Anatoli Shcharansky, an imprisoned Soviet human rights activist who has reportedly been charged with treason. This was clearly a warning to both foreign correspondents and dissidents that...
Foreign newsmen kept a vigil outside the prison where Toth was held while U.S. embassy officials tried vainly to gain admittance to the interrogations. President Carter pronounced "the strongest objections," warning that...
...York City, Max Toth, president of the Toth Pyramid Co., claims that his cardboard Pyramid Razor Blade Sharpener (price: $3.50) will more than pay for itself by producing blades that never dull. Evering Associates, which markets Toth's products in Canada, says they can be used to dehydrate tropical fish for display purposes. Small stuff, perhaps, but Inventor Patrick Flanagan, who sells his own pyramid line in Glendale, Calif., reports that the device has improved his sexual sensitivity...
Freshen Vegetables. Toth acquired the U.S. rights to Drbal's patent, and the idea was talked up by Toth, Flanagan and Eric McLuhan, a former professor of "creative electronics" at Fanshawe College in Ontario, who is Marshall McLuhan's son. After the younger McLuhan published an account of meat-dehydration experiments -which showed that small chunks of hamburger lost their moisture at different rates depending on their placement inside a pyramid-others began trying with flowers, fish and eggs. One is also supposed to be able to freshen vegetables, restore stale coffee, ripen hard fruit, mellow cheap wines...