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...result of a rash of fires that began to flare last October, just as candidates were warming up for what promises to be a sulfurous 1968 campaign. All the fires have been traced to the same origin: fire bombs aimed at driving U.S. -owned business out of the Commonwealth. In the past year, arsonists have set 20 fires costing $15.6 million, with department stores and supermarkets the principal targets...
Prime Time. In California, where he is thinking of second-ballot votes, he missed hardly a stop, skipping from San Francisco's Commonwealth Club to the Town Hall Forum and a private meeting with influential G.O.P. supporters in Los Angeles. "There are some hard-core Nixon people," said Tire Heir Leonard Firestone after the meeting, "but there are lots of open-minded people." At week's end Rocky was at the Republican Governors' Conference in Tulsa, Okla., where he finally won the endorsement of Shafer, who will bring him 40 to 50 of Pennsylvania...
Among the 96 passengers debarking at Heathrow Airport from BEA's Lisbon-London Flight 75 was Ramon George Sneyd, who went to the Commonwealth immigration desk and presented his Canadian passport. The immigration official took one look at the document, then asked the bespectacled Sneyd to join him in a back room for some "routine" questions. The interrogation was far from routine. Sneyd was found to be packing a loaded pistol in his back pocket, plus another Canadian passport. And when Scotland Yard's crack detective Tommy Butler took over, the alert immigration official's original suspicions...
Each working day in Moscow, a chunky, blue-eyed Englishman arrives at the KGB headquarters at No. 2 Dzerzhinsky Square to pursue his duties as "chief adviser" in Russian espionage against Britain, the Commonwealth and the U.S. He is well equipped for the job. As the most successful double agent of modern times, Kim Philby O.B.E., scion of the British Establishment, Cambridge University, would very likely now be the head of the British Secret Service had he not been discovered and forced to flee to Russia...
Originally planned to take place a week ago Sunday, it succumbed to the climate of animosity that has confronted peace demonstrations all year--it was rained out. Moustachoied advocates of the conspiracy theory report they spotted planes sporting the emblem of the Commonwealth seeeding the clouds minutes before the downpour...