Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Athens, an irritated Premier George Papadopoulos declared that whether Greece should hold elections in one year or 20 was for his regime alone to decide. Simultaneously, his government drafted a new press code that requires foreign as well as Greek newsmen to report in conformity with "Hellenic-Christian traditions." The House committee's action in calling U.S. Ambassador Henry J. Tasca home from Athens to testify in closed session was an unusual display of congressional displeasure...
...four months of its operation has collected about $30 million in what used to be the wages of sin, is considering a device, developed by Video Information Systems Inc., that would presumably allow bettors to tune in the race at home and punch their bets by electronic code on the buttons of the converter...
Chinese hotels are not air conditioned, despite sweltering summers, and the Americans found that room service was undependable. The crude domestic soap and toilet paper was best avoided. Room telephones in the Tung Fang, Roderick discovered, could be made to work once the dialing code was divined (dial 666 for the front desk)-but he had to go downstairs to learn the instructions...
...code name is given each caller, and an elaborate payoff system involving a clandestine rendezvous is used to reward the anonymous informant. The cloak-and-dagger atmosphere is apparently part of the program's lure. Said the program head: "People are interested in that type of thing-code names, secret drops. There's a little...
Ironically, Colombo's deviation from old-line Mafia methods resulted from his adherence to the traditional code of family loyalty (see box, page 21). When his son Joseph Jr. was arrested in April 1970 on a charge of melting coins into silver ingots, Colombo acted at once. He took the usual steps of putting up bail and hiring a top lawyer to look for irregularities and loopholes. Then he did something new. He began picketing the FBI, claiming that he and his family were being harassed. After several months of daily demonstrations, the Italian-American Civil Rights League was formed...