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Probably the most unusual event of the weekend came Saturday when Dartmouth editors printed parodies of the Crime in their Hanover offices and brought them to Cambridge in little brown suitcases. But a CRIMSON operative, dispatched to Hanover last Wednesday to ferret out news of a possible parody, returned with conclusive evidence of the forthcoming fraud. In Saturday's issue of the genuine Crime appeared a story warning readers of the hoax...
...London's King George's Park one sultry evening last week, a pasty-faced young Briton kept an appointment with Pavel Kuznetsov, ferret-faced second secretary of the Soviet Embassy to Britain. The young fellow was William Martin Marshall, 24, a $21-a-week radio operator employed by the Foreign Office to transmit clear and coded messages to British missions abroad. Once a clerk in Britain's Moscow Embassy, he had been meeting Communist Kuznetsov clandestinely for several months...
Illustrious Name. The actual party leaders are no fiery Mussolinis but a couple of unexciting Fascist wheelhorses: Giorgio Almirante, head of the five-man M.S.I, bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, a thin, drab man with ferret eyes and a receding chin which he remembers to thrust out periodically; Secretary Augusto de Marsanich, who dotes on being remembered as one of the original squadristi who ''marched" on Rome...
Sometime in October a girl begins to plan her term. She consults her faculty counselor, Bertha H. Funnell, Director of Non-Resident Term, and classmates. Funnell's office provides about a third of the students with jobs; the rest ferret for themselves...
...issue is not a question of should we or should we not ferret out Communists; it is the old problem of preserving the rights and privileges of persons and upholding legal procedures of prosecution...