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...sketches of the strong men in the Kennedy Government, and as with most sketchbooks, their quality varies. The Kennedy Circle is the most variable since it was gathered from the blacksheets of 14 top Washington correspondents. Its best feature is its occasional irreverence: New York Times's Elie Abel makes Defense Secretary Robert McNamara a character of almost comic naiveté when he tells of his bewilderment at discovering that some admirals and generals do leak secrets to reporters. The Kennedy Government, a one-man effort by Stan Opotowsky, author (The Longs of Louisiana) and political writer...
...Brothers M, by Tom Stacey. Another disturbing African novel about an oddly matched pair of students, McNair (white) and Mukasa (black), and a journey that turns them into Cain and Abel...
...readers to long-range radio-transmission equipment. The Krogers claimed to be New Zealanders; actually they were U.S. Citizens Morris and Lona Cohen, with a long history of Communist ties. They had dealt with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the executed atom spies, as well as with Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, now in Atlanta federal penitentiary serving a 30-year term for espionage. The Cohens were each sentenced to 20 years...
...worked for the Soviet Amtorg Trading Corp. in 1942. Around the time of the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg spy trial in 1951, the Cohens ducked from sight. The FBI was not looking for them then but for reasons unrevealed, began taking an interest in them during the Rudolf Ivanovich Abel spy case in 1957. When Colonel Abel was convicted as a Russian spy, the FBI sent circulars concerning the elusive Cohens to their counter-intelligence counterparts in Britain...
...horizons in union investment, many unions refuse to be convinced, e.g., the huge United Steelworkers union, which still buys only Government bonds. "We have a strong feeling that the business world is not for us," says Union Secretary-Treasurer I. W. Abel. "For one thing, adventures in speculative stock purchase might give the enemies of labor a chance to attack the union's tax-free status." Probably a greater fear among most unions is voiced by Joseph T. De Silva, Los Angeles local secretary of the Retail Clerks: "These funds are even going to own some corporations before long...