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...gave it to them. In accordance with Russian espionage practice, Zabotin's man insisted on paying May, despite his squeamish objections, for his information. The fee: a bottle of whisky and at least $700. In the records of the Russian intelligence, Dr. May became known by the code name "Alek...
Theft-Proof Wheat. The Roosevelt Stockman's Association put on sale confetti to foil wheat thieves. (For the last few years there have been several big wheat thefts a year in Roosevelt County, Mont.) Packaged with a code number printed on each piece of paper, the confetti is mixed with the farmer's wheat, and the code number recorded by elevator men when the wheat is traded. If the wheat is stolen, the code number makes it easy to identify when resold...
...universal history is a continuous development; it is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul." A slavish objectivity subverts the purpose of history: a historian must not only be a judge, but a "hanging judge" as well. "The inflexible integrity of the moral code," said Acton, "is, to me. the secret of the authority, the dignity, the utility of history . . . Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity...
Kinsey and his men have taken 16,500 case histories so far. The core of the work is interviewing. The records are preserved on 400,000 punched I.B.M. cards, which are guarded like the gold at Fort Knox. All the recording is done in a code Kinsey invented, which is so abstruse that a professional cryptographer was unable to break it. The code has never been written down and takes about a year to memorize; Kinsey and his three chief associates are the only people alive who know...
...more often due to contradictory values in society. She predicted that in the U.S. the conflicting goals of success-through-competition and Christian unselfishness would cause a plague of psychic quirks and kinks in coming generations. Her advice: a man should be "truthful to himself," develop an inner moral code, and relate himself to others in "a spirit of mutuality...