Word: unraveling
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...Hughes affair appeared last week to be headed toward a denouement. Its elaborate mysteries began to unravel a bit. Its bafflements still invited ingenious hypotheses, yet it seemed likely that after episodes as odd as the circumstances of Howard Hughes' own life, the truth of the matter was about to emerge. In a reverse jigsaw-puzzle effect, the outlines of the truth began to take form as Author Clifford Irving's account of how he had assembled the Hughes manuscript began to crumble...
...fastest, most intricate computer ever built is a primitive machine compared with the human brain. One human brain cell, for example, may be "wired" to as many as 60,000 other cells. In an effort to unravel and understand the complexities of the brain, scientists in a number of laboratories are literally reconstructing the living brain tissue of lower animals in test tubes...
...King been able to retain the trappings of success while facing the fact of failure? As courts and tax investigators across the country unravel the intricacies of King's finances, the story behind his comfortable penury is beginning to emerge. King's decline began in mid-1970 with the much-publicized collapse of Bernard Cornfeld's Investors Overseas Services; in 1969 I.O.S. had provided King Resources with 35% of its revenues by buying oil-exploration and drilling services. As Cornfeld's empire foundered, worried creditors began pressing King Resources and Colorado Corp. for repayment of loans...
...financiers like Gilbert Flexi-Van Corp. Chairman Milton Gilbert and Spartans Industries Chairman Charles Bassine had lately slowed to a trickle. Twice during the summer, Bayh was forced to delay paychecks for his staff. The impressive organization that had been the envy of his rivals was beginning to unravel. Around Washington during the past several weeks, rumors had been circulating that the Bayh campaign would not make it to the primaries. As it happened, few sensed more acutely how badly things were going than Marvella Bayh, who had been doubtful about her husband's running in the first place...
Given the mix of personal ambitions and animosities in Saigon, that plot was always less likely to unfold according to plan than to unravel. Last week, in a drama that "needed only Gilbert and Sullivan to set it to music," as one Western diplomat in Saigon cracked unhappily, the show nearly collapsed altogether...