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...begun his tale with a flabbergasting account of how the Russians, through him and other spies, gained detailed knowledge of the atomic bomb at least seven months before the first explosion at Alamogordo (see SCIENCE). He had concluded with further incredible details of the ring's efficiency and cloak & dagger methods...
Only one man need by expended. Concealing himself in the nearby W.C. on some pretext until the appropriate time, all he need do is rush one or two shells tot he trusty longbore, jerk the lanyard, and the destructive deed is done. None of your flimsy cloak-and-dagger time-bomb plots--not on your life. Thanks to the keen vision of our forefathers, Harvard is now in a good position to strike a strong counterblow in its Battle for Survival...
...wealthy, who could afford to wait until the last minute, were packing up to get out. In front of upper-class Korean houses and stores, merchants in beaver-collared coats supervised the loading of their more valued belongings. A beautiful girl in a rich velvet skirt and cloak glided gracefully into a waiting auto...
...years ago an HYRC official accused his colleagues of running a "Cloak and Dagger Department" in a "Machiavellian atmosphere." He hinted that the C & D Dept. had considered such things as wrecking the NSA, packing the Student Council, smearing political candidates as Communists, and infiltrating the Liberal Union. Months later there were more charges of skulduggery; this time the GOPpers were alleged to have set up a string of "vassal clubs...
...Cloak & Dagger Missions. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy's Was There, while dry and cautious, belonged on the shelf of must reading for the history-minded. So did Admiral Frederick Sherman's Combat Command, General Mark Clark's spirited Calculated Risk, and General Bob Eichelberger's straightforward story of the Eighth Army in the Pacific, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo. Several of the personal-adventure books made excellent reading. Best of the lot was British Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's Escape to Adventure, a lusty, well-written narrative of daring and luck in carrying out cloak...