Word: plotters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Philip Van Horn Weems, 90, navigation expert; of pneumonia; in Annapolis, Md. A Tennessee farm boy who graduated with the same U.S. Naval Academy class ('12) as Explorer Admiral Richard Byrd, Weems developed many navigational methods and devices, among them the Weems plotter, treasured by pilots from World War II on. An adviser to Byrd and Charles Lindbergh, Weems was often called back to duty after retiring as a Navy captain in 1933, the last time to devise an instrument allowing astronauts to find their way without using computers...
...Skeleton, was marked up as the lead piece for an issue, just to give the editor a good scare. The art of suspense did not come easily to Erie Stanley Gardner. He never did learn much about writing character, not to speak of description. But he became a master plotter and one of the most prolific and successful authors who ever lived; 82 Perry Mason novels, which have sold over 300 million copies, are only part of his output (over the years he took several pseudonyms...
...weakness was reported by a Hartford private detective, Richard Sulman, 36, who specializes in sophisticated electronic gear. With an inexpensive and readily available police-band radio, Sulman claimed, he had easily tuned in on Secret Service messages about Ford's movements. The disclosure raised the possibility that any plotter could fairly easily pick up conversations describing Ford's itinerary, or even jam radio messages between the agents by broadcasting on the same frequency. But the Secret Service maintains that anyone who wanted to do harm to the President could get much more valuable information about his schedule simply...
...usually not needed to convict him. And when an informer does testify, courts tend not to be bothered if he is guilty of seamy behavior. In 1973 the Supreme Court swallowed substantial involvement by a federal agent in the manufacture of methamphetamine pep pills (speed) because the other plotter had demonstrated that he was already disposed to commit the crime. Actual entrapment, however, is banned. The only other major prohibition is against using an informer to infiltrate a legal defense. That would, of course, violate the defendant's constitutional right to a lawyer. But the Constitution does not otherwise...
...alves spent most of his active military career as an engineer. While still in the army, he earned considerable civilian income as stockholder and manager of a construction firm. A veteran of the wars in both Mozambique and Angola, he was an early opponent of (and frequent plotter against) the Salazar and Caetano regimes. The leftist ideas he picked up in the military also made him an opponent of Spínola after that conservative general became President. When the M.F.A. decided a year ago that the revolution was not moving fast enough, radical officers readily turned...