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...consumer magazine with strong trade influence." To others, it is "a trade magazine with strong consumer influence." In either case, it managed to carry more fashion advertising than Vogue or Harper's Bazaar last year even though it missed an entire month's publication. Among cloak-and-suiters it is known-half affectionately and half derisively-as "The Girdle Gazette." It is the New York Times Sunday Magazine, one of the more curious phenomena of U.S. journalism...
Many of the company's designers are aeronautical engineers who constantly test designs in wind tunnels and work in a cloak-and-dagger atmosphere. Two high walls block out Citroen's proving grounds in Normandy, and the no man's land between them is patrolled by menacing dogs and guards. The only nonresearch employee who may enter without a special pass signed by three persons is a conservative economist, Pierre Bercot, 59, who is Citroen's president...
French police pulled in a cloak-and-dagger suspect, a darkly handsome colonel who commanded the 5th Infantry Regiment in Blois, 100 miles from Paris, and -according to recently captured documents-passed military secrets to anti-De Gaulle activists. His name in the documents was "Ulrich." But Ulrich, now transferred to the security prison in Paris, turned out to be Henri Fournier-Foch, 50, grandson of heroic Marshal Foch, Allied Supreme Commander of World...
...cold war provides the proper natal temperature at which secret agents are born and flourish. This book, by a pseudonymous author who served the U.S. Government in a variety of intrigues over a 16-year period, aims at-and intelligently succeeds in-explaining the theory and purpose of cloak-and-dagger work. It also argues that every serious U.S. failure, from the U-2 to the Bay of Pigs, "has either been caused or compounded by those responsible ignoring or brushing aside the classic principles of secret operations...
...professionalism" in academic work. Oxford don J. R. Sargent said some time ago to the Political Economy Club: "The idea that one man should be responsible for almost the total range of instruction of his pupils seems ludicrous to many Americans, though they are usually kind enough to cloak their incredulity with admiration...