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Trap Door. The charming Krogers, said the Crown, were the bankers and communicators for the ring. Rummaging through the Krogers' home, British police found $8,000 in cash and travelers' checks. A high-speed radio transmitter was found beneath a trap door in the kitchen, and in a...
In the beginning, the sleek, up-to-date four-engined turboprop llyushin 18 was the pride of Russia's propagandists. But last August, Russian authorities were forced to announce the crash of an IL-18 flying from Cairo to Moscow because several Afro-Asian notables happened to be among...
The Caroline had just landed on the rain-soaked runway at Palm Beach airport and was taxiing up to the apron when the message came in over the pilot's radio that an emergency telephone call was waiting. Hostess Janet Desrosiers rushed back with the message to Jack Kennedy...
Nurses in the Forest. Each submarine will remain submerged for 60 days at a time (George Washington will spend Christmas and New Year's at sea), and effectiveness will depend on precise maintenance. In order to launch missiles on target with accuracy, the ship must know its exact location...
Spies & Vanishing Briefcases. For decades the Orient Express served as grist for the mills of novelists (e.g., Agatha Christie, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler), who conjured up (a) fur-wrapped beauties from Hungary in conspiratorial conversation with spies in the corridor, (b) muffled sobs in the next compartment, or (c) vanishing...