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...Guggenheim Foundation accepted his design (cost: $2,000,000), but New York City authorities prosaically declared that the museum would violate building laws; among other things, the building's 6-ft. overhang was against regulations.* Last week Wright, who has described the building code as being "for fools," showed up at a hearing in Manhattan. He grandly agreed to eliminate the overhang, made plans to appeal the other objections...
From another anti-Nazi German, known by the code name "Wood," Dulles got the text of 2,600 top-secret German Foreign Office documents. It was on information supplied by Wood that Dulles found the first evidence that someone in the British embassy in Turkey was selling vital Allied secrets to the Nazis. Following up Dulles' lead, the British eventually discovered that the culprit was Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen's valet "Cicero," who, thanks to the movie Five Fingers, has become World War II's best-publicized...
...definition of imperialists is foreign priests, or Chinese priests who resist pressure to play ball with the Communist government. Against the dozen priests recently arrested in Shanghai (TIME, July 6) were lodged an assortment of blood & thunder charges backed up by a public exhibit of firearms, knives, invisible ink, code books, and murder-plot documents. Church officials in Hong Kong fear this is just the beginning: in China today are 349 foreign priests (about 40 in jail), 19 lay brothers and 196 nuns (as compared with 2,500 foreign priests, 100 brothers and 2,000 nuns when the Communists came...
...Although Hollywood's self-censoring production code specifically bars miscegenation...
...over a long sought new mine safety code...