Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strange and unexpectedly short trial-the first of four that Wilson faces on charges that he masterminded an international web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities between 1976 and 1979. Wan and slimmer after five months in federal custody, Wilson did not take the stand in his own defense, and maintained a dour demeanor during the 2½-day trial. A CIA agent from 1954 to 1970 who then worked in a Navy intelligence group before retiring in 1976, Wilson seemed to sense that his luck had run out. For nearly two years after his first indictment...
Calvi began spinning his web in 1971, shortly after he became director-general of Banco Ambrosiano. An employee of the bank for 24 years, Calvi was determined to transform it into a major international financial institution from a relatively small regional bank with strong religious overtones (until ten years ago, would-be shareholders had to present baptismal certificates to prove their Catholicism). One of his initial steps was to form a Luxembourg holding company, Compendium, which later became Banco Ambrosiano Holding. The advantage of a foreign subsidiary: it is not subject to Italy's banking regulations. Calvi...
Calvin Coolidge shows conflicting moods and feelings; the bottom half is precise and calm, but the top half reflects an impatient, unhappy individual. Herbert Hoover demonstrates incredible motivation, but the coiled web tells us he feels trapped, and the overlapping of the designs suggests that he is a bit befuddled and confused. John Kennedy's graphic movement indicates a superior intellect. Obviously he had bad feelings toward the first, messily drawn house, which may be the White House. His feelings are moderate toward the middle house, and truly homey toward the third. Perhaps he felt some confusion about...
...Murphy took the incident as further proof of one of his earlier volleys at the I.A.C.P.: "By your action, you summon up the image of police chiefs as members ol an inferior vocation in public service, fearful of dissent and debate and caught in a web of conformity. In this, you don't hurt Pat Murphy, but you bring ridicule to the calling of police management...
...Union's Ottawa embassy whose defection in 1945 defused a major North American Soviet spy ring bent on extracting Western atomic bomb secrets; of a heart attack; in Mississauga, Ont. The information that Gouzenko brought with him exposed for the first time the extent of the Soviet intelligence web in the U.S. and Canada. Hypersensitive to personal danger, Gouzenko thereafter never appeared in public without disguising himself or covering his head with...