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...first time since Donald Mac-Lean and Guy Burgess of Britain's Foreign Office disappeared more than two years ago, Moscow was provoked to comment on the case. The Soviet propaganda weekly New Times last week denied that Burgess and MacLean had voluntarily gone or had been lured behind the Iron Curtain. "The insolent, provocative nature of these theories," said the magazine, "stinks to high heaven." As for the recent disappearance of Mrs. MacLean and her three children from Geneva (TIME, Sept. 28), said New Times, that is "insignificant in itself and without the slightest connection with the Soviet...
...Radio Workshop's half-hour for children (between 8 and 16), but since it does not talk down to children, grownups will probably like it too. Its ambition is "to wake children up, open some windows, let in some fresh air, and establish values for them." Actor Burgess Meredith, in a friendly, easygoing manner, takes the kids on a variety of jaunts which have already included a sail down the Mississippi with Huckleberry Finn (with Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson playing Jim, the slave), a visit to Harry Truman's Kansas City office (for a chat about the Constitution...
...hastily abandoned car, a vaguely phrased intention to visit a friend, a reassuring but phony telegram from out of the void-these were the nebulous clues left behind by British Diplomat Donald MacLean and his Foreign Office colleague, Guy Burgess, when they disappeared off the face of the free world more than two years ago. Last week, leaving behind an almost identical set of clues, still more MacLeans disappeared: Donald's attractive, Chicago-born wife Melinda and the three MacLean children...
They vanished from Geneva, Switzerland, as suddenly and as mysteriously as Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess had vanished from their posts in the inner sanctum of the British Foreign Office. Where had they gone...
DESPITE South Africa's drive to raise the world price of gold above $35 an oz., the U.S. has flatly refused and sees no change in the future. Treasury's W. Randolph Burgess thinks the increase would not rectify unbalanced world trade, the big source of the world's economic ills...