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...Department and the Communist Party have been secretly and successfully planting spies in the innermost echelons of each other's organizations. They have engaged not only in mutual theft of all kinds of information, but also in a never-ending game of blindman's buff calculated to ferret out the opposition's operatives. The details of this undercover competition became public for the first time last week, as the department prosecuted one of the Communists' most successful plants -a 42-year-old lieutenant named Arthur Miller, who has spent 16 years on the force and, before...
...News task force sifted through thousands of titles to ferret out the own ers of the buildings, many hidden behind elaborate corporate dodges, and listed the names of "20 of Chicago's biggest slum-makers." One reporter, posing as a real-estate buyer looking for a building to buy, was promised that his investment would be doubled within four years because "practically nothing is ever spent to make repairs...
Early in March, the Churches stepped into the academic freedom picture. During the first week of the month, Representative Harold C. Velde (R.--III.) said he would like to see an investigation of the nation's churches, in order to ferret out any subversive influences...
...telephone bill at the Harvard CRIMSON averages about $500 a month. Not all of this total is consumed in calls to Wellesley; a goodly sum also goes for long distance calls to Washington, New York and New Haven as eager Crimeds frantically ferret out news at its sources...
...amending his previous remarks concerning a Central Intelligence Agency plan to use him, John K. Fairbank '29, professor of Far Eastern history, and Fairbank's wife, as unsuspecting participants in a scheme to ferret out Communists...