Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scope of science to include the social sciences and humanities, uniting such diverse phenomena as the collapse of a bridge, the crash of the stock market, and the fall of the Roman empire. Yet its subject is not always "catastrophic" in the literal sense: optical scattering, embryonic growth, prison riots, aggressive behavior in dogs, and the rise of the nouveau riche also fall within its domain...
From distant points in the vast Gulag archipelago, five bone-weary men were rounded up and taken to Moscow. At 4 a.m. on Friday of last week, they were abruptly awakened, handed suits in exchange for prison garb, curtly informed that they were being stripped of their Soviet citizenship, and rushed to Sheremetyevo Airport. There they boarded Aeroflot Flight 315 for New York City. At Kennedy Airport in the foggy afternoon, the ex-prisoners of conscience-Dissidents Alexander Ginzburg, Georgi Vins, Mark Dymshits, Eduard Kuznetsov and Valentyn Moroz-were released into American hands, while two convicted Soviet spies were hustled...
...trade had been made possible by a pair of bungling KGB agents, Valdik Enger and Rudolf Chernyayev, who were arrested last May for trying to buy secret information from a U.S. naval officer; in October they were sentenced to 50 years in prison for espionage. Even before the trial ended, negotiations for a swap began. President Carter directed National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to conduct the talks with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. The discussions went on for months in the offices of both negotiators, occasionally in Brzezinski's house in McLean, Va., where his daughter and Dobrynin...
Teleprompter, the biggest MSO, with 1.2 million subscribers and revenues of $147 million last year, has had a yo-yo history. Founded in 1967 by Cable Visionary Irving Kahn, it expanded furiously by acquisition. Then, in 1971, Kahn went to prison, convicted of bribing officials in Johnstown, Pa., in order to get a franchise. Overexpansion and overborrowing from banks at high interest caught up with the company; in 1973 it lost $31 million. A new management team headed by Karp, a former treasurer of Columbia Pictures, has brought the company solidly back into the black. Last year it earned...
Three persons, including a former Widener Library security guard, were convicted in 1976 of armed robbery and sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 to 30 years for stealing the collection...