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...Tyrol. But when the way was legally cleared for his return to his homeland for the first time in 44 years, Austria's long-established coalition government trembled last week. For the mustached Herr Doktor is Franz Joseph Otto Ruprecht Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignaz, Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the Austrian throne...
...Selassie's party, not all the delegates to Africa's first "summit conference" last week were pals. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba loathes Ghana's power-seeking Kwame Nkrumah who is jealous of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser who despises the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny who in turn is contemptuous of Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor...
...Spot Check. The expected complications arose. One of Mrs. Felix Cittadino's five children had just gone to the hospital for a tonsillectomy, and she had forgotten the test date. But when the nurse rang her doorbell, she hauled a baby out of the bath, called another youngster home from a neighbor's. She asked: "Do you shoot something in or take something...
...Felix Frankfurter said: "The Gluecks have not arrived at the Heavenly City of ultimate answers to the question raised by crime. But they have blazed significant trails. They have been the most fruitful workers in this resistant vineyard...
...Fundamentals. Another tacit understanding between the big powers, according to Felix, is that political assassination will not be included in secret operations, on the theory that the murder of chiefs of state cannot resolve the existing conflicts between East and West. The recruitment of good U.S. secret agents is difficult, largely because gait, posture, manner and even physique make Americans readily identifiable abroad. As a result, U.S. intelligence services draw largely on naturalized U.S. citizens-which makes it somewhat easier for the Russians to penetrate the system by planting a counterspy in the guise of a recent defector...