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...FALL OF A TITAN, by Igor Gouzenko. An indictment of the Soviet system in the form of a novel by the Russian code clerk who exposed his country's atomic espionage net in Canada and the U.S. An important and frequently exciting exposure of Communist ruthlessness and what it does to those it touches...
...impossible to overlook the adolescent in Hemingway-his bravado, his emotional friendships, his vague but all-important code, his deep sentimentality about the good, the true, the straight, the beautiful, and occasionally the unprintable. But to preserve something of the adolescent through three decades in a world of literary critics, parodizers and cocktail-party highbrows takes a certain admirable courage. Above all, Hemingway can laugh at himself. Typical of Hemingway making fun of Hemingway is El Ordine Militar, Nobile y Espirituoso de los Caballeros de Brusadelli-which means, more or less, the Military Order of the Noble and Spirited Knights...
Later Physicist Arthur Compton telephoned President James Conant of Harvard, who was chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, and gave lim a prearranged code message. Said Compton: "The Italian navigator has reached the New World...
Abolishing one-man hearings should be central to any code of committee conduct, but equally important are a whole series of provisions for guarantees to the witness. He should have the power to cross-examine his accusers and to subpoena witnesses in his own behalf. Because accusations receive so much more space in the press than the replies that come afterward, the investigating Congressmen should be prevented from releasing their charges to the press until the witness has a chance to answer them...
...served as warning for all. For the time being--almost certainly for the duration of the 84th Congress--this may be true. But in politics it is too easy to lapse back into old habits; Congress should finish the good work it has started by drawing up a binding code of fair committee practice...