Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chambers' principal source in the State Department would take the documents home in a briefcase. Chambers would call on him, pick up the documents, have them rushed to Baltimore to be microfilmed, then return the originals to the official the same night. By the time the documents were back in department files next morning, Chambers would be in New York, opening up his tobacco pouch from which he drew his microfilm copies to deliver to Colonel Boris Bykov, the chief Soviet military intelligence agent...
...human future. Here as well as abroad we should read the signs of the times aright and shake off this malaise of the. spirit which has overcome us. South Africa, awake! World, awake from your slumbers and your dream world of ease, absentmindedness and irresponsibility! That is the call of 1949 to us all. Best wishes will not be enough...
...corridor that is redolent with the smell of stale fried potatoes. He works there at a plain wooden table littered with typescript. He is the head of the "Association for the International Registry of World Citizens and People's Assembly." His admirers-in France they are legion-call him le petit homme. In the 26-year-old, carrot-topped, pleasant, shrewd and slightly corny Air Forces veteran they profess to see an authentic symbol of a scared and muddled generation. His intellectual baggage may be designed for air travel, but Garry Davis is no dope. He has a clear...
...Phone Call. The assassin, hustled off to jail, was a 21-year-old veterinary student named Abdel Meguid Ahmed Hassan. He was also a member of the Moslem Brotherhood, a fanatical religious-political organization, a million strong, of whom half are Egyptians. Nokrashy Pasha had won its sworn enmity. A few weeks ago a telephone call brought him news that the brotherhood had assassinated Cairo's police chief. As he put down the phone, Nokrashy paled and clutched at his heart. Promptly he banned the brotherhood, knowing that his action might bring about his own assassination...
Roaming through the familiar streets, she met an old boy friend generally known in the nickname-loving neighborhood as "The Chink." (Why he is called that, no one can say. When pressed for an explanation, a local bartender shrugged: "Why do they call me 'The Cheese...