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...Communists crazy by talking Eskimo over the telephone on a tapped line," a first secretary who doubled as economist and "still had time to draft Voice of America broadcasts," an officer "who ran a truck to Nuremberg every two weeks for supplies," one consul, one vice-consul, one code clerk, three secretaries, and a military establishment consisting of "an Air Force colonel and an Army colonel who competed unhappily for the assistance of one sergeant...
Like many of Germany's most powerful younger men, Beitz began his postwar climb by working for the Western Allies. Son of a small-time bank clerk, Beitz in 1946 sold the British occupiers on hiring him as chief insurance supervisor in their zone-though he knew nothing about insurance-and went from there to the presidency of a small insurance company that he built into Germany's third biggest...
...Where last week he was expelled from the Communist Party, dismissed from the intelligence service, and sent to a mental hospital. * When John Vassall, a homosexual Admiralty clerk, was convicted last October of spying for the Russians, Macmillan summarily fired the clerk's superior, Thomas Galbraith, who had written the clerk some letters starting "My dear Vassall." Galbraith was later wholly exonerated. * Though possibly not in Britain, where Tropic of Cancer has been a bestseller for months and the unexpurgated Lady Chatterley's Lover has sold 3,500,000 paperback copies...
...test for even the pros. For amateurs it amounts to suicide. Yet every year, on "Black Sunday"-the day before the pro races start-thousands of begoggled young maniacs tear around the course, hoping to crack a ton. The first casualty last week was a 19-year-old bank clerk from Epsom, who did not even pause to check into his hotel before he wheeled his bike onto the course; he hurtled into a stonewall and was killed instantly. Within 24 hours another amateur was dead, and 20 more were in the hospital. Traffic cops gave up trying to slow...
...months created 700,000 new jobs, but 674,000 new workers-not to mention those already unemployed-started looking for jobs. Even the steel mills are hiring only high school graduates, and Government programs for training the unschooled have hardly made a dent. "You just cannot make a shoe clerk out of an unschooled machine shop employee, no matter how hard you try," says Houston Economist Sven Larsen. To many, the only answer lies in broadened vocational training for those of limited talents and expansion of the nation's higher educational system to train more and more students...