Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...made a hobby of hypnotism. At the University of Washington he worked hard at his studies, was a topnotch math and science student. When the two young bachelors met during Navy duty in Japan, they became fast friends. When they both signed up to work for the super-secret National Security Agency in Washington three years ago, they seemed ready and willing to settle down to a life of official, patriotic anonymity...
...Moscow. Newsmen from the Commu nist and non-Communist world had been summoned to a special press conference to hear them. While the Communists smiled and applauded and Westerners in the audience felt sick at heart, the two renounced their U.S. citizenship, retailed what they knew or suspected about secret U.S. intelligence activities, and pushed the current Soviet propaganda line that the U.S. is risking the peace of the world by persistent espionage. They also demonstrated beyond a doubt that there are serious flaws in U.S. security procedures...
...left behind in a Laurel, Md. safe-deposit box-a maneuver designed to prove that they had made up their minds well out of reach of Russian brainwashing. They had "sought citizenship in the Soviet Union." said the two, because they had learned that the U.S. lies, because its secret agents spy on both hostile and friendly powers, because its international operatives manipulate money and military supplies in an effort to overthrow unfriendly governments...
...Foot Stomper. For the West, this was a much appreciated relief. Scarcely had Khrushchev returned to Moscow last week from his Finnish jaunt (see below) when he pushed up to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson at a diplomatic reception and blustered that the Soviets had secret information that the NATO nations were planning "a new provocation in September by sending a plane over the Black Sea." Aggressively, he added: "But we are ready and the orders are to shoot it down...
...remembers the New England hurricane of 1938, before Gin was two. He remembers Benny Goodman, and he cannot forget Freud and girls who marry father surrogates. Then there is Gin's mother. As a penthouse-mistress of the theater and TV set with a not-so-secret yen for Wink, she resents a marriage that will blight the promise of adultery. What with mother and some complicated skulduggery back at the NBS network, it sometimes seems that the rice will never fly, but it does...