Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From another anti-Nazi German, known by the code name "Wood," Dulles got the text of 2,600 top-secret German Foreign Office documents. It was on information supplied by Wood that Dulles found the first evidence that someone in the British embassy in Turkey was selling vital Allied secrets to the Nazis. Following up Dulles' lead, the British eventually discovered that the culprit was Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen's valet "Cicero," who, thanks to the movie Five Fingers, has become World War II's best-publicized...
Name: diprotodon. Age: uncertain. Domicile: Australia. Physical characteristics: looks like a rhinoceros but has a pouch like a kangaroo. These are the vital specifications of one of the strangest prehistoric beasts known. Henceforth, thanks to Ruben A. Stirton, professor of paleontology at the University of California, scientists will learn a lot more about the diprotodon than the few fragmentary facts which, in the past, enabled them to put together only a vague sort of passport picture...
...open to informal questions. The meetings are usually pretty lively. Howland finds the prisoners are quick to ask questions, eager to argue. In a recent letter to me, Warden W. H. Hiatt summed up the three years of Howland's classes: "He has provided wholesome tonic by giving vital Howland impetus to realistic thinking about social, economic and political topics...
...this giant rival to business get so big? Many of the activities, such as atomic energy and synthetic rubber, were vital to national security, and only the Government was big enough to finance them. But the Government also still operates many a business that has no such reason for existence. President Andrew Jackson began Boston's 119-year-old Navy Rope Walk so that the Navy would not be dependent upon Russian hemp. U.S. ropemakers can now supply all the Navy's needs, but the Boston Rope Walk goes merrily on, with that hardy indestructibility peculiar to Government...
...industry-government combination" to join with it in building "an atomic power-generating pilot plant right now." Such a plant has been designed by North American. The company, makers of the famed Sabre jet, said that only the construction of such a pilot plant could provide "the answers to vital practical questions regarding the use of atomic energy." Cost of the plant: about $10 million...