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Squeeze Play. The authorities let it be known that Gardy's high-placed benefactor had been bundled off to another assignment, refused to name other U.S. officers she had (to use a euphemism) duped, and did what they could to keep alive the hope that U.S. intelligence in sensitive Berlin knows more about what is going on in Communist territory than it knew about activities in its own headquarters. "Careful investigation has disclosed," said an official spokesman, "that Fraulein Schmidt did not succeed in effectively obtaining any information." But she got $375 from the Russians for what she told...
Continuing CARE's personal touch--the recipient of every package will learn the name and address of his American benefactor--the arrangement will tend to eliminate the suspicion and resentment that sometimes surround handouts by foreign governments...
...peerless leader has disclosed that the re-establishment of the office of Vice President is being considered," reported El Caribe, newspaper mouthpiece of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo, Ambassador Extraordinary, Benefactor, etc., etc.-and for the past 24 years its Dictator. It was electrifying news. Anyone named Vice President would obviously be under grooming to take over the presidency, currently held by the Benefactor's brother and puppet, Hector Trujillo. Approving letters, marveling at the "brilliant suggestion of the Benefactor," began to appear, day after day, in the paper...
Discerning Dominicans, who know that letters to El Caribe are the Benefactor's way of informing the public about the current state of public demand, read avidly on for more clues. At last came a letter that not only seconded the creation of a vice-presidency, but significantly added that it was "absurd to deny high office to deserving Dominicans merely on the ground of youth." Nowadays, the letter explained, "young Dominicans get from their Maximum Leader . . . incomparable intellectual preparation." And that led to a logical conclusion: the minimum age for the vice-presidency, and the presidency, too, ought...
...gift came from Radcliffe's greatest single benefactor. Moors' previous gifts to the College had included $5,000,000 for unrestricted endowment, $700,707 for Moors Hall, and $5,000 for Holmes Hall. Moors headed the Harvard Corporation from 1917 to 1929 and served on Radcliffe's governing board for 50 years...