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...news was announced in London by Pierre Salinger, one of Gramco's top officers. Salinger, still sporting a PT-109 tie clasp from the Kennedy years, also suggested that offshore funds need more official regulation. Speaking of the offshore fund business and some of his competitors in it, Salinger told newsmen: "Jesus, that is a rough game. They spend more time knifing each other than any bunch I've ever seen...
...student, or a devotee-head shaven-clothed in a plain saffron robe, or an elderly but open-minded adventures, or, perhaps, a Texan in town for the first time, your hair cropped closely around the edges, with your string tie held closely in place with a silver Longhorn clasp...
Inevitable Reactions. By the 1950s, Abstract Expressionism was the new academicism. A million haphazard abstractions splashed from the hands of virtually every art student able to clasp a brush or wield a tube of paint. A reaction was inevitable, though no one dreamed its name would be Pop, its inspiration advertising and comic strips. To many, the antidote was distinctly more unpleasant than the malady. But there were moments of high humor and certainly social awareness. A rich, fat and powerful consumer society was rich, fat and powerful enough to accept its own image, no matter how ugly it turned...
Hollow Tie Clasp. In the end, it was his audacity that led to his conviction. When a disaffected KGB agent betrayed him, he was caught red-handed with the tools of his trade, including hol-lowed-out cuff links and other secret-message containers, a code book, a coded telegram, microfilm equipment and maps of U.S. defense areas. "It's incredible," Abel's defense attorney James B. Donovan told him, "you violated most of the basic rules of espionage with all that paraphernalia lying around...
...incriminating evidence under the noses of the arresting officers by flushing his encoder down the toilet and scraping paint from his artist's palette onto the coded cable. In the car that took him to prison, Abel claims that one bumbling FBI man examined his hollowed-out tie clasp and let a microfilm message fall to the floor unnoticed. "No professional spy wants to admit that he goofed," says an FBI spokesman, dismissing Abel's claims as "complete nonsense...