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...SHORT COURSE IN THE SECRET WAR (314 pp.)-Christopher Felix-Dutton...
...aboard a Soviet heavy cruiser, British Frogman Lionel Crabb mysteriously died in Portsmouth harbor while trying to examine the cruiser's hull. Yet the state visit continued and official relations remained unruffled because London followed the code by calmly disowning the dead frogman. The rule here, says Author Felix, is that "a covert operation's patent hostility can be ignored by the victim who uncovers it only if he receives the cooperation of the author of the act." Hence Khrushchev's discomfiture after the U-2 incident when he told newsmen he was certain that President Eisenhower...
...School has announced a drive to raise $400,000 to establish a professorship in honor of Felix Frankfurter, former Justice of the United States Supreme Court and a member of the Law School faculty for 25 years...
...Falls, S. Dak. Engaged in ballyhoo for a French travel magazine, the two rising young Americans rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed to the manner born. Said he: "It was a perfect trip...
...would be foolish to suggest that President Lowell's decision in the case was reached solely because of a prejudice against Italians or against radicals. Lowell had stood out against his own class before and would do so again. When alumni were calling for the resignation of Felix Frankfurter, who aided the defense during the Sacco case, Lowell would have nothing of it. He supported the League of Nations when that was an unpopular cause and refused to fire Harold Laski when alumni pressure for the socialist's dismissal was intense...