Word: burgesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fashionable and distinguished-looking Londoner, Mrs. John R. Bassett, found a Christmas note from her son in the mail one day last week. This commonplace occurrence made headlines all over Britain, for Mrs. Bassett is the mother of Guy Burgess, the young British diplomat who disappeared behind the Iron Curtain more than two years ago with his foreign-office colleague, Donald MacLean...
...note, dated November and written in ink in a hand positively identified as Guy's by Mrs. Bassett, was the first tangible evidence that Burgess is still alive. Beyond that fact, it proved nothing. Written on British stationery and enclosed in an envelope postmarked "Dec. 21, London, S.E. 1," the note might have been written anywhere and mailed by any one of thousands wandering the streets of southeast London that day. Two Soviet cargo ships were tied up in London at the time, and the Waterloo Airways Terminal is part of the postal district in which the letter...
Senior Evaluator. The disappearance of Burgess and MacLean, followed last year by the similar disappearance of MacLean's wife and three children from their home in Geneva, still ranks high in the hearts of British mystery lovers as one of the top unsolved riddles of the age. Last week's rap on the door sent a new blizzard of speculation swirling through pubs and drawing rooms. But in point of fact, except for the lack of official documentation, the mystery surrounding Burgess and the MacLeans has grown fairly thin...
After sifting hundreds of contradictory reports, British intelligence officers are now reasonably satisfied that Burgess is working for the Russians in Moscow as adviser on English-language broadcasts, that MacLean is living with his wife and children in Kladno, Czechoslovakia as "senior evaluator" of Western diplomacy and propaganda...
...Fair Dealer, Economist Leon Keyserling, describes a recession as a "short-run downturn of moderate or even large proportions." The Commerce Department's Under Secretary Walter Williams talks darkly of the time when "soft spots merge and a breakthrough is imminent." Treasury's Deputy Secretary Randolph Burgess is precise. A recession exists, says he, only when gross national product falls at least 5% (which would mean a drop from the current $371 billion to $352 billion...