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...final question was voiced by the Daily Express: "How many more spies are there?" Boyle claims there was a "fifth man" and hints that he was Physicist Wilfrid Basil Mann, who was an attaché in the British embassy in Washington from 1948 to 1951 and is now a senior physicist at the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Md. Boyle says the fifth man passed atomic-bomb secrets to the Soviet Union, but was trapped by then CIA Agent James Jesus Angleton and turned into a double agent. Angleton will not talk, and Mann told the London Daily Telegraph...
...bailout plan comes with strict conditions attached, and it must also be approved by Congress, which will probably go along but may attach further limitations. Even so, the news cheered Chrysler's management, which is counting on a line of fuel-efficient, front-wheel-drive cars due to appear next year to spearhead a reversal of the company's decade-long slide and return it to solid profitability by 1981. Said lacocca after the Administration's announcement: "It's a vote of confidence we needed." Added Auto Workers Chief Douglas Fraser, who is joining Chrysler...
...carries with him the burden of Chappaquiddick, a reputation for womanizing and the problems of separation from his troubled wife. But his biggest liability may be his image of being a big-spending liberal at a time when many public opinion analysts believe Americans have become more conservative. Opponents attach considerable significance to a Boston...
According to Isaacs, State Senator William Kirchner, 63, told him that he would kill himself if his name were printed. "He said that he's bought a hose and that he planned to attach it to his car in his garage, but that his garage was being rebuilt," said Isaacs. "He then asked if he could use my garage." Kirchner later admitted that the revelations about him were true, though "negative and vicious...
...heading higher. Many bankers predict that they may reach 14% by year's end. But in 24 states, including Illinois, New York and Texas, usury laws hold rates to 12% or less. Lenders there are likely either to cut back on making home-buying loans or attach tighter conditions to them. A typical instance: First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Chicago has just shortened the repayment period on all mortgage loans to 25 years from 29 years, and now requires a minimum 25% down payment, vs. 20% formerly...