Word: unraveler
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Racial discrimination was the loose thread, which, when repeatedly yanked by Southern Black civil rights workers, began to unravel the myth of a just society for thousands of white students in the North. This revelation, not Vietnam, inspired SDS to pull away from its democratic-socialist parent organization. Starting with a few hundred members scattered from Harvard to Berkeley, the group gradually constructed a platform which linked the students' own impatience with mainstream Democratic politics to the suffering of the non-white and the destitute. In its 1962 manifesto, The Port Huron Statement, SDS zeroed in on the links between...
...affair began to unravel in February when New York Times writer David Shipler mentioned the kidnapping in a piece printed in the Paris-based International Herald Tribune. When the Times ran Shipler's story a few days later, it deleted mention of the incident. But ze'ev Chafets, director of Israel's Government Press Office, began to make noise. He accused the media of partiality in its coverage of the Middle East and singled out the abduction of the reporters as proof the media could not be unbiased. And Chafets revealed that the correspondents involved worked for the New York...
...mathematics, and in fact helped write the M.I.T. code that competes head-on with Stanford's. Last spring, back in his spartan, second-floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work was no Buck Rogers-Dick Tracy cipher. It was a charter member, along with the M.I.T. code, of the new "public key" family of encryption schemes, so called because one of their secret code words, or keys...
Psychiatrists argue persuasively that criminals actually hope to be caught, and it has been suggested that the Tylenol plot could unravel in a way that leads to the killer's front door. Says Dr. Donald Greaves, chairman of the psychiatry department at Evanston Hospital: "A significant number of killers secretly seek destruction. They want the recognition and sense of fame they receive from their acts." Yet thus far the killer has left no clues, no letters, no hints, no demands, no hidden pleas for help. "The fact that the crime is both grandiose and anonymous is not a contradiction...
...biggest Italian bank scandals of modern times last week got bigger. Struggling to unravel the mystery surrounding $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion missing from Milan's Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's eleventh largest bank, and the apparent suicide in June of its president, Roberto Calvi, Italian authorities tried to serve notice on three of the top officials of the Vatican bank that they were under investigation for possible bank fraud. Among them was American-born Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, 60, the president of the bank, which is officially known as the Institute per le Opere di Religione (I.O.R.), or Institute...