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...confession. Last week he partially repudiated the confession, saying that it was "incomplete" and adding, "The facts will prove that I am completely innocent." Icardi coolly stuck to his original story. Said he: "Major Holohan disappeared ... I am the victim of enemies in Italy . . . The whole 'cloak & dagger' story is untrue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Case of the Missing Major | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...making his weekly visit to the shrine to honor the Prophet and the memory of his own father, Hussein, onetime Sherif of Mecca (Custodian of the Holy Places) and King of the Hejaz, whose bones lie buried there. Abdullah, right hand relaxed on the hilt of his ceremonial dagger, * walked easily, far ahead of his bodyguard. Talking animatedly with his companions, including his grandson, 15-year-old Emir Hussein, the King went up the steps to the entrance of the nearby Aqsa Mosque, slipped off his shoes, prepared to join 4,000 other Moslems at prayer. At that point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: King & Killer | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...approximately 90% cloak and. 10% dagger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACARTHUR STORY: Five Star Firing | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...lawfully elected President is passionately addicted to legalising he will go to any lengths, however ludicrous, to accomplish his ends in a "legal" way. As a result, his five-year regime has been marked by surprisingly little rough stuff; his formula has been approximately 90% cloak and 10% dagger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Love in Power | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...tale with a flabbergasting account of how the Russians, through him and other spies, gained detailed knowledge of the atomic bomb at least seven months before the first explosion at Alamogordo (see SCIENCE). He had concluded with further incredible details of the ring's efficiency and cloak & dagger methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: My Friend, Yakovlev | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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