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...rally was fraught with angry tones and bitterness, which could not be covered up by pleasant Irish songs, tap dancing, and door prizes which the rally's sponsors, the Democratic Committee of Ward 10, had provided...
Next day came a tap on the door of Room 1877. French opened it warily, found not Russians but the FBI and agents of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. For reasons that spoke volumes about the vigilance of the FBI, the letter had never got to the Russians inside the embassy. No sooner had French tossed it into embassy grounds than it was retrieved-unknown to him-by an FBI agent who must have been keeping a close and effective watch on the Russians. The agent took one look, decided that "To Whom It May Concern" meant...
Sole Searching. In Kensington, Conn., an FBI agent spotted new wires in his house, reasoned that someone was trying to tap his line, ripped them all out, shamefacedly learned that the wires had been specially installed for a hi-fi set his wife planned as a birthday present...
...Mikoyan of 1957 can still turn on joviality like tap water, laugh off Khrushchev's blunted barbs, and knock back bottoms-up toasts in the Armenian cognac he calls "best on earth." He remains the Kremlin's jauntiest dresser and spriest waltzer. His wife Anush (whom he found in Rostov's Armenian colony just after the revolution) calls him babnik, which means flatterer. She once declared that he was one of only two hand-kissing, courtly gentlemen in Moscow (the other: Lavrenty Beria). They have four sons (another was killed in World...
Krupp engineers are also in Russia discussing details of a $3,000,000 synthetic-fiber and chemical plant now on Krupp's order books. In Greece the firm is building a $23 million oil refinery near Athens, is interested in setting up a steel plant to tap Greece's rich ore deposits. Kruppmen are at work on yet another steel plant in Pakistan. Other projects, from bridges to whole new industrial areas, are being pushed in Spain, Thailand, Bolivia, South Africa, Indonesia...