Word: deviousness
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...Dark Heroine. Last week, in the tortured and tormented confessions of a would-be suicide, reprinted on the front pages of Hong Kong's leading newspapers, the question was answered. The girl who captured the handsome hero was a dark and devious adventuress, as full of schemes and subterfuge as a Communist cell. Pert, pretty and dynamic, Hung Hsien-nu was the reigning queen of the Hong Kong opera, with a score of movie credits to her name as well. The protegee and wife of a former Hong Kong movie star whose Red sympathies had carried him back...
...rocked the House of Orange-Nassau. The royal disharmony manifest between Juliana and her consort, much-traveling Prince Bernhard, apparently focused on the Queen's now renounced ties with Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25 et seq.). Said Juliana: "Why . . . do some people attack someone by devious means with false claims? Why . . . do they try to drive a wedge between a man and a woman in vain attempts to destroy a deeply rooted unity? . . . Do not I, too, have the right to try to be myself...
Republican responsibility for the Powell amendment fiasco seems fairly definite--ninety-six Republicans in the House voted for the Powell amendment and against the bill. Whether, as the Democrats claim, Eisenhower might have prevented this devious behavior is open to question. It is possible that Ike's inaction on the question was based on his principle of "quiet leadership," although on other issues he has exerted himself conspicuously. One factor in this particular disintegration of White House leadership was the President's somewhat disabling post-operation convalescene at the time. Whatever the cause, by allowing Republican legislators to play political...
Complex is the bureaucratic mind and devious are its ways. To the student dashing into University Hall with his preliminary study card, the tentative list of courses for next fall has only one purpose--to give the University's IBM machines approximate enrollment statistics to whirl around in their electronic innards so that they can spew forth estimates of the number of section men, graders, and lecture hall seats that courses will require in September...
Even Frenchmen inured to the back biting and cynical misbehavior of their politicos were shocked last week by a sensational trial in Paris. Eighteen months ago André Baranès, a devious little Tunisian newspaperman and police informer, was arrested for transmitting vital French defense secrets to a Communist newspaper publisher. Baranés claimed he had got the information from two assistants of respected, 50-year-old Jean Mons, secretary general of the Defense Committee (France's rough equivalent of the U.S.'s National Security Council). Last week, as the trial of Mons, Baran...