Word: coding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they circle the earth, crossing each other's orbits every 50 minutes or so, the U.S. satellite Explorer and the Soviet Sputnik II stay true to their national characters. Sputnik II is silent now, but even before its radio went dead its instruments talked in a secret code, and last week the Russians were still taciturn about its coded reports on conditions in space.* But the Explorer, a talkative American working in a published code, was droning away in the clear to all who would listen...
...reporters and photographers who were accredited at Cape Canaveral for the satellite launching accepted Yates's terms and committed their papers, agencies or magazines to them. Many correspondents had ingrained misgivings about the experiment, if only because it might hobble their reporting. Nevertheless, Yates's code worked without a hitch until Jan. 22, when International News Service Correspondent Darrell Garwood reported that a Vanguard would be ready for firing between Jan. 23 and 25. Under pressure from New York headquarters, the United Press's Charles Taylor followed up with a story saying that a missile firing-"possibly...
...with antacids, said New York Medical College's Dr. Robert C. Batterman, was that they relied on patients' faulty memories. To rule out this and other sources of error. Dr. Batterman did "double blind" tests: identical-looking tablets, one plain, one buffered, were used with only a code letter for labeling. Neither the patients nor the doctors and nurses knew which was which until after the results were tabulated. The results showed that, buffer or no buffer, there was the same amount of pain relief, the same frequency and intensity of stomach upsets suffered by some patients...
...countrymen from Ottoman medievalism to Western modernity in one short haul, Ataturk converted Turkey into a facsimile of a parliamentary republic, fought an unending battle to break the influence of the Moslem clergy. Under his tireless prodding, Turks found themselves obeying not Islamic law but the Swiss Civil Code, writing not in Arabic script but a new Romanized alphabet, wearing not the fez but a strange Western headgear the name of which, Ataturk felt obliged to explain...
Since the censors had the phone numbers and cable addresses of all major U.S. newspapers, magazines and wire services, Szulc updated his files by sending what appeared to be business messages to 229 West 43rd St.-the Times's street address-using a prearranged code ("Regret inform you 24 boilers out of order") to relay casualty totals. When last Monday's school strike in Caracas proved a success, Newsman Szulc succeeded in getting a telephone connection to New York, dictated his entire story in Polish to his businessman-friend. The morning after...