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...express is a train carrying a defecting Soviet general from Milan to Rotterdam, accompanied by a crew of se cret agents who are supposed to protect him until he spills all his secrets to our side. The avalanche is but one of the many none too subtle attempts by Soviet intelligence to silence him before he gets too chatty. One keeps wondering why he was not simply bundled on a U.S.-bound plane in Italy in order to avoid all this huggermugger. There is talk about his being so important that rolling him all the way across the Continent will...
...tory, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops allowed reporters to at tend its business sessions. The newsmen were treated to nothing more exciting than, for example, a brief statement of principles by the presiding officer, Cardinal-designate John Dearden of Detroit. Yet even that brief exposure to once se cret proceedings underscored the hierarchy's attempt to establish a more open and democratic style. Some of the bishops visited the Houston Space Center, and on the eve of the conference, a dozen of them made an even more extraordinary gesture toward modernity. Journeying across town to Hous...
Strolling Through. Huivenaar, who is now in an Amsterdam prison, began his career peddling narcotics, abortion pills and second-hand cars in the Amsterdam underworld. Since 1962, he has concentrated on smuggling refugees out of Eastern Europe. At first he free lanced, hiding would-be escapees in se cret compartments of automobiles and bringing them across borders for $125 apiece. As Eastern European nations steadily tightened border-security mea sures, the old escape methods - cars or tunnels - became unreliable. So, as Huivenaar tells it, he linked up with a Berliner named Wolfgang Loeffler, 44, and their techniques soon became much...
...many ways, Louis I. Kahn is architecture's favorite maverick. No trim glass and steel boxes for him. Kahn's vocabulary includes truncated towers, round arches, even domes. He was once one of the most promising pupils of French-born Architect Paul Phi lippe Cret, designer of Washington's Pan-American Union. At first glance, Kahn may seem like a Beaux-Arts architect, but at the age of 65, he has achieved near-divine status among today's architecture students...
...first glimpse, it certainly bore all the signs of a U.S.-Soviet deal. First the news broke that Premier Khrushchev, in a se cret letter to President Kennedy, had agreed to remove the biggest obstacle to a nuclear test-ban treaty by permitting on-site inspections in Russia. Soon afterward, the U.S. confirmed that it was preparing to dismantle its Jupiter base in Turkey, the very thing that Khrushchev had demanded when the U.S. forced him to get his medium-range missiles out of Cuba, and its bases in Italy...