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Last week all of Britain wondered where Blake was: Scotland Yard staked out the abandoned R.A.F. airstrips around London, put a watch on the docks, kept a discreet eye on the Russian and East European embassies. Seven other spies were transferred to less porous prisons, and the Home Office appointed Lord Mountbatten to investigate the scandalous state of security in British jails, which have been losing inmates at the rate of ten a week. A more fascinating question concerned neither Blake's whereabouts nor his means of escape. Rather, it was a question of identity: Who and what...
...diplomats abroad who converse with foreigners seem less than enthusiastic about the Cultural Revolution, privately blame the excesses of the Red Guards for bringing Peking a bad press throughout the world. Publicly they keep a discreet silence. After all, just by living abroad the diplomats have made themselves logical targets for the xenophobic Red Guards when-and if -they return home...
...good museum director must be a clever sleuth and a keen scholar, bold but tasteful, charlatan enough to fool his competitors, discreet in his dealings, a master charmer, a canny politician, greedy, and above all, always right in his purchases. Allowing for a bit of hyperbole, Sherman E. Lee of the Cleveland Museum of Art meets most elements of that prescription. Traveling 14,000 miles a year, he metaphorizes his annual buying foray into a military campaign: "One begins with strategy, continues with tactics, ends with responses to local situations." And, he might have added, measures his success-and ultimately...
...Discreet Complaints. Schriever's difficulties with McNamara were hardly unique and will likely be experienced by his successor, General James Ferguson, 53, whose last job was deputy chief of staff for research and development. While many other prominent service leaders clashed loudly with their civilian superiors in the Defense Department, Schriever was discreet about his complaints. Apparently he intends to continue being that way as he begins a new career as a Washington-based industrial consultant. Unlike the bevy of generals who got the last word in their arguments with civilian superiors by writing mem oirs, Technocrat Schriever plans...
Though she plans to wage a man-to-man battle with Claiborne Pell, who so far has kept a discreet silence, Colonel Briggs also has the little extras of her sex going for her. When a woman in a store, mistaking the colonel for a supervisor, asked, "Do you have a lemon squeezer?" Colonel Briggs quickly introduced herself, said: "I have two, and if you can't find one I'll be glad to send you one of mine." And, though the colonel has promised to stick to the issues, she is woman enough to admit that...