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...elegant, youngish man strolls through the brooding gloom of evening. The collar of his Burberry trench coat is flipped up against the damp mist which rolls through the streets. His foulard neck tie is confidently tied and asserted with a simple pin, and his Bally slippers make only the slightest squishing noise as he makes his way to his club for a few hands of whist, for talk of the Malaya network and of what new moles have been rooted out of it. At the door, he is greeted by the doorman, a fine, silver-haired chap clad...
...surveillance equipment is foolproof, however, because miniaturized state-of-the-art components can easily be dropped into a pocket or hidden inside a coat lining. Says Robert McDiarmid, a former sheriffs lieutenant and now a partner in a California security firm: "I don't give a damn how good your system is, or how sophisticated your hardware. Generally speaking, when the system fails, it's a people failure." The best way to solve that problem may be the one used by companies like IBM and Apple Computer, which strive to keep their employees loyal by treating them fairly...
That phrase might have served on Churchill's coat of arms. Back home, in Parliament, he became a master of publicity. Violence in Belfast surrounded his preachings for Irish home rule. Even his worst notions drew attention. He offered a bizarre plan to incarcerate and sterilize the mentally ill. "Feebleminded girls," he said, "are the easy prey of vice and hand on their own insanity with unerring and unfailing fertility." The scheme was unworkable; the controversy precedented...
...silver-haired and there is a certain heaviness in his stride; too many neon midnights, too many gray-lit dawns. But if he is weary, he is not yet cynical; if his luck is currently as battered as his trench coat, his streetwise honor has been burnished instead of tarnished by hard use. He is Bob the Gambler, out to rob the casino at Deauville, and he is the only certifiable grownup now appearing as a hero on any American screen outside of the revival houses or the late shows...
...took pains to nurture this special respect. "We were very close officially," recalls Rusk. "But I never played touch football with the Kennedys. I never got pushed into their swimming pool." Kissinger cannot remember ever going into the presence of Nixon at the White House without a coat...