Word: coded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief reason the Swiss will not change their secrecy code is that it has made them the custodians of a huge financial empire, given their tiny country 4,000 banks for a population of 5,000,000 -six times as many per capita as the U.S. They started their secrecy policy in the days of the Napoleonic Wars to guard the endangered fortunes of Europe's capitalists, in 1934 wrote it into law to protect the funds of victims of Nazi and Fascist persecution. Anyone can open a secret account in a Swiss bank, get a code number...
...controlled strength that makes McClellan one of the most respected members of the U.S. Senate and its top investigator. Into the arena of congressional investigation, where many a congressional head has been turned by headlines and TV time, McClellan brings a special kind of justice. It is the personal code of a man who has had to learn the hard way to control his strength, who has had to beat down wild winds of temper, and learn that the law-in whose cold virtue he once sought escape from a world that used him cruelly-must be tempered by understanding...
Since boyhood, McClellan has carried with him the admonitions of an Arkansas preacher: "Know thyself, control thyself, deny thyself." For long, grim years John McClellan struggled to shape his life by that code-and success came late...
McClellan beat McMath by 37,000 votes and returned to Washington. It had taken him years, but he was finally able to live up to the code set forth by the preacher of his boyhood days: to know himself, control himself, and deny himself. John McClellan would be a lesser man if he had never had problems. He is the stronger for overcoming them. His conduct at the labor-investigating committee shows...
...light of a certain wave length and loses its color when light of another wave length hits it. The Cash men are hard at work building these talented capsules into a "chemical memory" for computing machines. A transparent film impregnated with photochromic capsules can be written upon in coded dots of color by a hair-thin beam of light. A beam of neutral light that does not affect the dots can read them off in thousandths of a second, or a beam of bleaching wave length can erase them. The capsules can be made so small that the entire Bible...