Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chaos, that foreigners now refuse to ship Turkey even vital medicines without cash on the barrelhead, that the only thing Turkey has plenty of is yok (nothing). They complained that Menderes had suppressed freedom of the press, packed the courts to rubber-stamp his decisions, and altered the election code to keep opposition parties from forming coalition slates. Yet the windup rallies in Istanbul were festive rather than bitter, and wonderfully reminiscent of U.S. campaign rallies except that vendors hawked raisin cakes instead of hot dogs, and the music was supplied by singsong flutes instead of brass bands...
Hayhanen, in his richly accented voice, detailed the life and times of a modern spy. He made his first contact with "Mark" (Abel's code name) merely by sticking a thumbtack into a sign in a Manhattan park, met Abel later at a prearranged rendezvous in a theater smoking room. From then on, Hayhanen, Abel and a few underlings passed information and money to one another by using a variety of Hitch-cocky gimmicks. The agents slipped their material into hollowed-out coins, flashlight batteries, pencils and bolts, left them in such courier drops as a lamppost, phone-booth...
Quebec's Garage. Hayhanen's testimony brought not a flicker of reaction from impassive Spymaster Abel. Government lawyers hinted that even more damning evidence would be forthcoming. One agent whom Hayhanen had been told to contact was code-named "Quebec." He was, in fact, U.S. Army Sergeant Roy Rhodes, who had once worked in the garage of the U.S. embassy in Moscow, and, according to a message from Moscow, had been recruited "on the basis of compromising materials." Try as he could, Hayhanen could never locate Roy Rhodes. But U.S. authorities found him. He was scheduled to take...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany emphasized that "American labor believes that private enterprise has been and can be a great force for economic and social progress." To increase its effectiveness in helping underdeveloped nations, Meany suggested 1) an International Investment Code under which nations receiving private capital or governmental technical assistance would guarantee investors against arbitrary treatment; 2) a multi-billion-dollar International Consumers Credit Fund ito underwrite long-term installment purchasing of consumer goods...
Holloran contended that most cities, such as Boston, have kept in line with the modern architectural trend by changing or waiving their building regulations. One member of the board remarked in agreement that before the Hotel Commander was built, the code specified ceilings eight and a half feet high. "I have been lowering ceilings for 30 years," he stated...