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Such are some of the nuggets from the cryptologic trove amassed by David Kahn, past president of the American Cryptogram Association. His huge volume shows how the science of cryptology has influenced the course of nations and the fate of rulers and rogues, soldiers and statesmen, poets and pirates. The speed with which the Navy switched codes following the Pueblo crisis is only the latest public indication of cryptology's continuing importance...
...Marina Oswald now figures that everything Assassin Lee Oswald ever touched has turned to gold. Oswald's Russian-born widow, 25, now married to Texas Saloonkeeper Kenneth Porter, is suing the U.S. Government for $500,000 in payment for Lee's confiscated personal effects-a treasure trove including old Christmas cards, Russian maps of Moscow and Minsk, his Marine Corps discharge and an Oct. 20, 1963 copy of the Worker that Marina thinks collectors would dearly love to own. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Mighell conceded that Marina "definitely will receive compensation" for the mordant memorabilia. "The question...
...only when the French government staged its mammoth 1966 Paris retrospective in honor of his 85th birthday (TIME Dec. 2), that Picasso agreed to let his own private sculpture trove be used to supplement the few Picasso sculptures available from other owners. Subsequently, Sir Roland Penrose, author of a biography of Picasso, prevailed on him to let the sculpture travel on to London's Tate Gallery this summer. Last week Americans got their chance to see what all the excitement was about when 290 pieces, selected by Sir Roland, went on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...committee and one of the world's foremost collectors of Oriental art, who donated his $30 million hoard of treasures to the city of San Francisco for display in the M. H. de Young Museum. Having posted 20 letters complaining about the museum's treatment of his trove, Brundage finally fired off an ultimatum: "It is quite obvious that this project is too large for this museum, if not for the city of San Francisco itself." If they don't treat his artistic Golconda as he thinks it should be treated, he will take it elsewhere...
...that was hijacked by pirates on the high seas or sank beneath the waves during storms. These lost riches still haunt the imagination, and to addicts no space-age adventure is as exciting as the search for sunken treasure. Exciting and occasionally profitable. An engrossing sampling of one briny trove, the salvage of an armada wrecked in the 18th century off Florida, was put up for auction last week in Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries (see color). The loot brought some...