Word: coding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Leonardi Code," a backstage melodrama about murder and mind reading, with Sally Ann Howes and Barry Morse...
After failing in two previous efforts to persuade California's Democratic-controlled assembly to pass a code of ethics that would prohibit conflicts of interest for both legislators and state employees, Republican Assemblyman Frank Lanterman of Los Angeles last week brought up the code proposal for "the third and last time." By this time he had changed the bill so as to make certain it would hurt no one. "This is simply a statement of our good intentions," said Lanterman, "and carries no penalty." The assembly piously approved the measure by a vote...
Other easing of the harsh Wahabi code can be seen at every hand. Goal posts stand far out in the desert for the benefit of passing nomads who have taken up soccer. Thieves now get their right hands chopped off in the public square only after the third offense. A doctor first administers a local anesthetic, bandages the stump, and then rushes the convict off by ambulance to a hospital, where, like all Saudis, he gets free medical care. The penalty for adultery is still death by stoning, but there has not been an execution in a decade...
...affair came just one week after the publication of President Kennedy's high-principled code of ethics for Government officials...
Snake Man, by Alan Wykes. More remarkable than any of the rare snakes he has captured is C.J.P. Ionides, a legendary eccentric whose life displays all the imperious instincts of the aristocrat without an inhibiting trace of the code of a gentleman...