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Pills & Poison. Most spies carry on (or in) their bodies three kinds of pills: 1) "knockout drops" ("which render a man unconscious for 24 hours"), 2) Benzedrine, 3) a quick-action poison for suicide. But the spycatcher may also be fairly certain that, apart from his pills, "every spy carries something incriminating either on his person or in his luggage." If he wears a watch & chain, for example, each jewel and metal segment of the watch, each link of the chain, must be microscopically examined for ciphers. All his cigarettes must be tested for invisible writing, all the tobacco sifted...
...bleater, is a small rubber squeezer, ball-shaped and equipped with stops. Properly manipulated, the bleater emits a "pia" like the cry of a newborn roe; it also trills a realistic "fiep," simulating the call of a doe in rut. The bleater instruction sheet suggests that the hunter render the fiep with "trembling hands," then promptly swing his gun to his shoulder and brace himself for the charge of a romantic roebuck...
...father. Reza Shah Pahlevi, a mighty man who rose from sergeant to emperor. (The British confirmed Reza's kingship after World War I, but broke him in World War II.) The young Shah's sensitivity over his family's short claim to royal legitimacy helps render him indecisive...
...Your otherwise excellent reporting of Pennsylvania politics implies that it is a pretty dirty business, yet John S. Fine and politicians like him render a valuable service, i.e., as political brokers and as negotiators of various conflicting interests vying for recognition in the governmental process...
...only issue and that they will not yield an inch on it. "We see no possible area of compromise," White wired the White House. ". . . This issue is going to be a long drawn out one." Said Moreell: "Our company believes in unions . . . that unions can and do render useful service. [But] we believe that each man and woman should be free to join or not to join...