Word: plainclothesmen
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...name of Pablo Picasso has been officially anathema in his native Spain ever since Franco. Last week it fluttered through the conversation of Madrid's arty set as persistently as one of the master's mechanical Communist peace doves. While suspicious plainclothesmen strained to detect something subversive in the highbrow cafe controversies, the government wondered how to suppress Spain's liveliest and most political art wrangle in 15 years...
Just before the Princess and the Duke landed, Huskey's State Department agents, the cops and plainclothesmen of the metropolitan police inspected every foot of the excursion routes. At the Washington Cathedral, for example, Huskey paced off cathedral rooms all one morning to see precisely how much walking would fit into the royal schedule. One of Huskey's safety principles is to keep his wards in motion. With this precaution, he allowed Washington street crowds to get much closer to the Princess than Canadian crowds were allowed...
...whereabouts of every U.N. plane that night, Matt Ridgway denounced the affair as a "frame-up" and scorned it as an "amateurishly staged presentation . . ." The Communists, in turn, denounced Ridgway's reply as "savage" and "contemptible," charged further attempts to murder Communist personnel by U.S. and South Korean "plainclothesmen," and accused U.N. air commanders of sending planes over Shanghai and Tsingtao. In one message from Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai to Ridgway, they gave away what really seemed to be worrying them: "You have the audacity to regard yourselves as the victors...
...Tournament at suburban Tarn O'Shanter Country Club, Sam Snead just scoffed at the "threats," declared: "I get calls from guys like that all the time." But as the tournament got under way, both Snead and Mangrum, playing under the watchful eyes of a convoy of cops and plainclothesmen, were clearly off their games. Mangrum wound up tied for sixth place; Snead was out of the running. The winner: former (1949) U.S. Open Champion Gary Middlecoff, with...
...Reporter Oatis. Next day, the Czechs replied: Oatis was under arrest for "activities hostile to the state," for trying to get "certain secret reports" and putting out "illegal press materials insulting the Czechoslovak republic." At midnight, while putting his car in the garage, he had been seized by three plainclothesmen who stepped out of the shadows. Simultaneously, a fourth employee vanished, leaving only a girl clerk of Oatis' original staff of five...