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...West Germans managed to slip more than $74 million of strategic materials into the Soviet zone on an ostensibly "legal" basis, with the help of phony invoices, bribed or lax custom guards, intricate shipping techniques. On one occasion, 89 separate pieces of machinery were passed through West German custom guards; reassembled on the other side, they turned out to be a complete boiler factory. Other supplies move through "triangular trade"-a West German industrialist will ship a smelting plant, for example, to Belgium and from there it will be shipped to East Germany. In addition to this "legal" trade...
Drew Pearson, 53, has the largest circulation (over 600 papers) of any Washington columnist, thanks partly to his reputation for risking libel. Pearson gets many of his tips from disgruntled Congressmen or bureaucrats out to knife a policy or an opponent; fellow newsmen often slip him a risky story their own papers won't print. Pearson's stories are slapdash and often inaccurate, but his Quaker righteousness, bulldog tenacity and one-man campaigns (one sent Parnell Thomas to jail) have helped keep politicos and bureaucrats honest...
...endlessly flowing paper is controlled by colored tags and big "buck-slips." Congressional letters, of which the Pentagon gets about 300 a day, get a yellow "expedite" tag; an "urgent" tag is red, and one "rush-rush" marker is known as "the green hornet." An expert use of the buckslip-a small routing slip on which higher authority checks off directions such as "for action," "please brief for me," etc. -is an essential Pentagon skill. The classic story is one of a newly arrived Navy commander, snowed under with accumulating papers, who stumped over to an old hand behind...
...such special problems as what a little girl should do with a horse she won on a giveaway show (the consensus: sell it). After five years on radio, most of the juvenile jurymen are sufficiently grooved in show business to upstage each other, mug heavily at every wisecrack, and slip effortlessly into a Scotch Tape commercial...
...expected from an M.P. who had prepared for politics by writing musical comedies, novels (The Water Gipsies, Holy Deadlock) and humorous essays for Punch. But no one is likely to scowl at Independent Member, a sprightly, informal snapshot of the Mother of Parliaments with her hair down and her slip showing...