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Since 1945, when he fled from Ottawa's Soviet embassy to make the first major exposure of Communist espionage in the West, Igor Gouzenko has been living undercover, with an assumed name and a 24-hour police guard. Last week the former Soviet cipher clerk was back in the limelight, the center of a swelling controversy between Canada...
When Alfred Hall was a proper, young cipher clerk at the British embassy in Moscow, he did a somewhat improper thing: he picked up a Russian girl at a performance of Swan Lake in the Bolshoi. "I brushed up against her," he said. "I apologized. We started talking. She spoke good, if academic, English and there it was." Two months later, Alf Hall and 22-year-old Clara Strumina, student of English (mostly Shakespeare) at the University of Moscow, and daughter of a late army colonel, were married...
Alphabetic Cipher. If EDC were fact, the Communists might respond to these stirring challenges. As it is, they can thumb their noses at an alphabetic cipher. Three years of delay and cavil have convinced many Europeans and more Americans that nothing so troublesome, and so lukewarmly supported, as EDC can ever work well. The case against...
...passage of his life. The ancient Lily, still brimming with life, jeeringly mistakes him for still another of her daughter's suitors-or pretends to, since she does not want to sell the house. Both of them challenge Komar's ineffectual mildness. Lily Loyd calls him a cipher, and Blanche, driven by love and loneliness, says: "The Herbert Komars of the world seem to me to do great wrong: that is, they do nothing at all." Bewildered and aroused, Komar wonders to himself, as he compares the life of the Loyds with his own, what he has missed...
...cipher-minded Marasmen will try to make it four in a row this afternoon. They move to M.I.T. for a 4 p.m. match...