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...Cloak & Cricket. The double agent is Alexander Kamensky, a minor functionary in the household of an Imperial Russian count living in Paris in the 1900s. Kamensky arranges the murder of czarist leaders, while he fingers his revolutionary comrades for the Czar's secret police. Dame Rebecca hints of his duality, but she is in no hurry to expose him. After all, the effect of a double agent depends partly on the ability to wear his ambiance like a cloak...
...borrow a cricket term, it was a very sticky wicket. There was the visiting Westhampton (L.I.) Mallet Club, unrivaled at home, ignominiously defeated eight straight times by London's Hurlingham Croquet Club. "Do you need a coach?" inquired the British captain. "We need a coach-and-four," groaned a U.S. player. But the colonials have just begun to fight. Back home, plans were already afoot to form a kind of U.S. Olympic team of malleteers, including all the croquet greats: Composer Richard Rodgers, Actors David Wayne and Gig Young, and as spiritual leader, a man described as "a living...
...paper reports regularly on 15 major sports and faithfully follows 25 minor ones, including such little-played games as field hockey and volleyball. The only sports of any significance that L'Équipe does not cover are horse racing, which it opposes on moral grounds, plus British cricket, U.S. football and baseball, which are Greek to Gallic readers...
...Empire is gone. The pound is going down - and now even skirts seem to be. The Beatles were hooted out of Manila, and the national cricket team is currently getting clobbered by the West Indies. Still, England oscillates. The cause of the excitement is an ugly, 12-in.-high trophy known as the World Cup and symbolic of supremacy in soccer - a game that seems tame to Americans, but still is the most popular spectator sport on earth. In London last week, after years of trying, England finally won the World Cup by defeating West Germany...
...this spending in Government and at the same time spend for Viet Nam." President Mark Wheeler of the New England Merchants National Bank is "disenchanted" because the Government is asking business to contain spending but is not doing so itself. "It's not cricket," says he, "to have business act in a fiscally responsible manner and not the Government." Banker David Rockefeller last week called not only for federal budget reduction but for a quick enactment of "limited and temporary, across-the-board increases in personal and corporate taxes...