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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likelihood, Scarbeck told the Reds little of real value. Although he could read files up to those classified as secret, top-secret documents were inaccessible to him. U.S. security officers say his informing was largely limited to casually acquired, uncertain dope and did not include information on current political maneuvers or military secrets. Still, Scarbeck's disclosures cannot be passed over too lightly, since the bulk of espionage is the accumulation of many bits and pieces, such as those that he furnished, in a total picture of enemy operations. Scheduled to go before a federal grand jury this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: That's No Joke, Son | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...jetted out of two down-pointed nozzles and slowly lifted him off the ground. In a 15-sec. flight he cleared the Army truck and made a perfect two-foot landing 150 ft. from his takeoff. The Army, which is paying for Bell's Rocket Belt, is still uncertain about its military value on earth, but Bell spokesmen see a grand future for it when the U.S. has colonized the moon, where gravitation has only one-sixth of its strength on earth. By releasing a few bursts of steam, rocket-belted colonists will soar easily over the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Leap, Eat & Die | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...clubbed to the pavement and his briefcase stolen. So far, so bloody; then the thief walks a few steps down the alley, a gas pipe thuds musically on a skull, and the mugger himself lies mugged. The new thief happily examines the briefcase-until a knife glints in the uncertain light. He gives the loot to the latest blackguard, when suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Polish Anarchy | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...Challe heard the verdict unmoved and departed for Sante prison, reflectively smoking his pipe. Both troubled and relieved by the lenient sentences, Paris' thoughtful Le Monde felt that greater severity might have provoked "the indignation of the majority of the French. Why? Because today minds are divided, institutions uncertain, and civil sense in disarray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: France: Sense of Disarray | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

Also independent of the Peace Corps, this proposal is a consequence of Heintzen's recent trip to Africa, which he discussed in a lecture while visiting Quincy House early this term. It is yet uncertain how many students will participate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Seniors to Teach in Africa Under Three Different Programs | 5/16/1961 | See Source »

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