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...Washington, and the hunt was on. In Los Angeles a Chinese-American customs officer, masquerading as a prospective buyer, nailed down a young refugee named Paul Yang to whom Chen had entrusted a $12,000 bronze turtle. Sure enough, the turtle turned up in Yang's safe-deposit box, and last week Yang was slapped into jail...
...jets ordered by Hughes have been parked on the Convair ramp at San Diego's Lindbergh Field, ready for delivery to TWA whenever Hughes paid the $45 million owed on them. All told, Hughes had ordered $126 million worth of jets from Convair, made a $26 million deposit...
Desirable Mates. First Mitchell and Martin read from a photostat of a statement that they had left behind in a Laurel, Md. safe-deposit box-a maneuver designed to prove that they had made up their minds well out of reach of Russian brainwashing. They had "sought citizenship in the Soviet Union." said the two, because they had learned that the U.S. lies, because its secret agents spy on both hostile and friendly powers, because its international operatives manipulate money and military supplies in an effort to overthrow unfriendly governments...
...Moscow sideshow was not unexpected. Last July, when Martin and Mitchell did not come back from a sum mer vacation, NSA men broke into Mitchell's home in Laurel, Md. They found the place a shambles, and they were par ticularly intrigued by a set of safe-deposit keys. Maryland State Police got a court order to open Mitchell's safe-deposit box in the State Bank of Laurel, and there, indeed, was the typewritten defection statement...
...Oyly Carte tradition wherever stiff joints masquerade as style; but he is too English and too understanding of G. & S. to want to undermine what they did. The sudden gay way in which he has the crew lift Captain Corcoran off one side of the deck and deposit him on the other admirably indicates the kind of general lift he has given Pinafore...