Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, before a battery of microphones, cameras and newsmen in a U.S. Government office at Bonn, Captain Khokhlov, 31, told why he had failed to MVD CAPTAIN KHOKHLOV (WITH FAMILY) With poison and conscience. carry out his murder assignment. The stated reason was simple enough: "A conflict between Soviet intelligence, which tried to force me to commit criminal acts, and my conscience"; but the facts leading up to it made a story that sounded like a collaboration of Graham Greene and E. Phillips Oppenheim...
...Mere Squeeze. The weapons decided on for Khokhlov's mission were specially designed and built according to MVD specifications. As displayed for newsmen in Bonn last week, they were enough to send chills down the hardiest mystery-lover's spine. Two were tiny derringer-like pistols, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand. Two were machines of the same type concealed in leather cigarette cases. Fired by flashlight batteries and equipped with expansion chambers to absorb the shock wave, they were almost noiseless, and each was equipped to fire three kinds of bullets: small lead...
...stilted conversation pedestrian to the point of boredom, it was cold comfort to realize that they had merely seized on topics that failed to interest him. On the right subject, apparently, Panyushkin could be fascinating. "He is a clever and attractive person," said ex-MVDman Khokhlov in Bonn last week, "and he knows how to explain to you the right way to kill a man with poison bullets...
Married. Lotte Adenauer, 28, West Germany's first lady, daughter and official hostess of widowed Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; and Heribert Multhaupt, 32, Aachen architect; in a civil ceremony, to be followed by a Roman Catholic wedding in Bonn Cathedral on May 11; in Rhöndorf, Germany...
...about new industrial plants. In Peru, Erhard helped inaugurate a new steel tubing mill equipped with German machinery. In Brazil, where a German steel tube plant is going up in Minas Gerais and a Volkswagen assembly plant is to be started in June, a $142 million trade treaty with Bonn provides that $50 million of German goods will be used this year in Brazilian undertakings...