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Inside a U.S. ferret satellite flashing around the earth at 17,000 m.p.h., supersensitive instruments intercept and flick back to Virginia a radio message between Moscow and a Soviet submarine in the Pacific. In Laos, an American listens attentively to the words of a cocktail waiter, then slips him a bar of silver. In an office of the U.S. embassy in Bonn, a rotund Sovietologist digests a stack of reports that may originate from any one of a thousand sources -a barber in East Berlin, a whorehouse madam in Vienna, a U.S. electronics salesman in Darmstadt, an Eastern European propaganda...
...orbiting objects are surveillance satellites that guard the U.S. against surprise attacks and provide constant watch over both Russian and Red Chinese territory. Since the U-2 flights over Russia were halted in 1960, the U.S. has had to depend heavily on its Samos, Ferret, Midas and Vela systems for vital intelligence about the Soviet Union. With those satellites, the U.S. has mapped and photographed Russia's missile sites and radar installations, followed the stages of nuclear progress in Red China, watched troop movements in both countries and eavesdropped on conversations at the Russian cosmodromes...
...declined in prestige ever since Merlin succumbed to the Lady of the Lake, may have been permanently discredited some 14 centuries later by the combination of television and Robert M. Shelton Jr. Though impeccably accredited as Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, Shelton, 37, a semiliterate, ferret-faced Alabaman, failed so completely last year to cast a spell on either the TV audience or the House Un-American Activities Com mittee that he was widely tuned out by the former and charged by the latter with contempt of Congress. Specifically, the committee charged him with refusing, under subpoena...
...SEVERING GAZZELONI, 47, the grand master of the difficult contemporary repertory, this week begins a monthlong concert tour that will take him from Copenhagen to Tripoli to Minneapolis. Fidgety and ferret-bright, Gazzeloni started noodling around with atonal music about 20 years ago, got fascinated when he found that in order to play the new music he had to dispense with the traditional flute technique and develop a new one. After several years of experiment, he developed one that permits him to cacophonize like an electronic menagerie. His art appalls the classical masters, but it reveals an exciting and significant...
Robert Gene Baker had lain for months like a dead cat at the door of the U.S. Senate. Few inside seemed in any rush to kick him away. True, the sharp, ferret-eyed kid who had left his native Pickens, S.C., at 14 to become a Senate page had been charged with gross impropriety for using his post as a Senate aide to become Washington's No. 1 influence peddler. But he had survived two sideshow investigations by the Democrat-packed Rules Committee, which was not anxious to strike down the man who had been Lyndon Johnson...