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...Silly Fool. The Cohens and their Russian boss took their punishment with a certain professional pride. Master Spy Lonsdale even made an effort to shoulder all the guilt himself, insisting that the espionage equipment in the Ruislip house was his and had been put there without the Cohens' knowledge. The Cohens, though protesting their innocence, refused to submit to crossexamination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Guilty of Spying | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...clerk at the Portland base, showed far less bravado. In an attempt to cut his own sentence, Houghton tried to turn Queen's evidence at the expense of the others, including his fiancee. Ethel Gee sounded brusque and matronly as she protested she was just a silly little fool who had been under Houghton's thumb. The Lord Chief Justice scornfully told her: "I think you acted, not out of blind infatuation, but for greed." Each was sentenced to 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Guilty of Spying | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

President Eisenhower "nearly proved Abe ," Washington columnist Drew Pearson told an audience last night. He claimed Eisenhower that "you can fool all of the people--for at least years...

Author: By Joseh M. Russin, | Title: Says Defense Facts Hushed, Predicts Defeat of School Aid Bill | 3/22/1961 | See Source »

Unlike last year, when the Crimson sextet was minus a few men because of injuries, everybody is in good shape and ready, Weiland noted, adding, 'But if we go into the game too overconfident we're going to get knocked off. We can't fool around...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Crimson Will Face Elis In Final Hockey Contest | 3/4/1961 | See Source »

...faced with nuclear blackmail in a limited conflict. By making all strategy contingent on the former, we have failed to come to grips with the latter. "Against an opponent known to consider nuclear war as the worse evil, nuclear blackmail is an almost fool-proof strategy." Juxtapose this statement with the following: "To rely entirely on the continued good will of another sovereign state is an abdication of statesmanship and self-respect"--and you have the central point of Kissinger's critique...

Author: By Jonathan R. Walton, | Title: Realism and Thermonuclear Paranoia | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

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