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...sequence, that of the D.P.'s disembarking, in one of the New York piers. They found that the piers had outlets only for DC current, rendering their AC lighting equipment useless. Rather than rent the converters at $33 a day, they will use over 1000 feet of wiring to attach their equipment to the AC sockets aboard ship...
Four holes must be drilled into the bottle, one on top, one on the bottom, and two on the sides. Into these holes, attach the tubing. Heat will fuse glass to glass. Another important point: the insulation, marked on the plans with vertical lines, must not be omitted. This can be made from cork, asbestos, or any other material with insulation characteristics. Cut the insulation to correct size, drill the necessary hole to allow the tubing to pass through, and glue to the tin box with some product that claims to make anything stick...
...Questions. In time Ernest was given a new contact: Nikolai Orlov, assistant naval attaché at the Soviet embassy. Last summer, Stockholm's police got a tip to look into the frequent meetings between the two naval officers, Swedish and Russian. The police shadowed Andersson, observed his note-taking and followed his exchange of bicycles. In the toolbox of Orlov's bike, they found all the evidence they needed...
...elsewhere. Guillaume (rhymes with he home) is a French hero of two world wars, who has served in Morocco since 1919. During Vichy days he secretly trained a corps of 10,000 Berber tribesmen, and later led them through Italy, France and Germany. After the war, Guillaume, as military attaché in Moscow, took a close look at Russian might, then became French commander in Germany. He has the dash that the French like in their generals: fellow officers remember him, wrapped in his Moroccan djellaba, reciting Dante in Rome, singing a song of Schubert's as he crossed...
Last week Larousse relented. Bowled over by the Attic charms of a new Greek cultural attaché in Paris, the publishers announced that grec in their forthcoming centenary edition would be defined solely as an inhabitant of Greece or that which pertains to Greece. "In these matters," said Attaché George Averoff, "official notes are no use. I got to know Larousse's publisher. I got to know his wife. We had dinner-and the matter was fixed...