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...intelligence officer who defected to the West 18 months ago, and had spent the intervening time being thoroughly pumped by U.S. and British agents. One reported result: the revelation that British Newsman H.A.R. Philby was indeed the "third man" who enabled Spies Burgess and Maclean to escape arrest and flee to Russia in 1951. Last winter Philby, too, slipped behind the Iron Curtain just ahead of pursuing MI-5 agents. Although the government had made quite a show of asking the British press not to print the story, the authorities had in fact leaked it. Laborites charged that this possibly...
When a big male starts his ritual hooting, females withdraw to a safe distance; infants flee. Schaller is sure that the performance is mainly a way to relieve emotional tension. Humans, he reminds his readers, have similar rites. Females and infants usually know enough to take cover when an emotionally aroused male starts kicking the furniture, slamming doors or heaving the family crockery...
...pushed to their rebellion almost against their will, like Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, who recanted several times but then, cursing his right hand for signing the recantations, deliberately put the hand into the flames; or Luther, gradually moving from reform to open spiritual insurrection. There are those who flee into rebellion as if it were a second country, like Lenin or Garibaldi or T. E. Lawrence, or find in it a devout clique of followers, like Freud or Sartre. And there are those who carry rebellion to insanity, like Sade and Hitler...
...those who could not flee from the cities "life was an unrelieved nightmare," Langer stated. "You could hear the rumble of coffin carts all day long; parents deserted their children and people went mad with terror...
General Manager Thomas J. McLernon said last week at a preview for public officials and business leaders that an entire 92-car flee of new trains will be in operation by July. The new trains replace 114 old coaches, some of them over 50 years old, which will be sold as junk...