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...gold teeth, and drove a blue 1958 Chevrolet with Texas plates. Mexican police immediately began a massive man hunt for all Americans who had crossed the border at Laredo on Oct. 12. In a dusty village 130 miles northwest of the murder scene, they picked up Simmons-and immediately freed him as the wrong...
...capital punishment, has sent no one to the firing squad for 61 years. Moreover, Simmons' death sentence will be automatically cut to 25 years in 1970 because he will have survived a final death rap for five years. He has also been told that he will "probably" be freed if he petitions Nuevo León's governor for commutation. But Simmons is an obsessively stubborn man: he refuses to make any move that might be tantamount to admitting guilt...
...Freed from Routine. She has done all that and more for her new managing editor, Benjamin Bradlee, 45, whom she took from his post as Newsweek's Washington bureau chief...
...prodded his reporters out of their clock-watching work habits and freed them from routine beats. Today a Post man is encouraged to pursue a story wherever it leads without worrying about stepping on a colleague's toes...
...shacks up with him and steals his books. Then she forces the two Englishmen to steal them back from a KGB agent's apartment, after which, naturally, P-G and Manning are kidnaped by the secret police and flung into jail. The book winds up with the two freed from prison and jetting home to London. The implication is that Proctor-Gould is now spying for the Russians. But is he really? Frayn doesn't say. The effect is illogical but somehow appropriate, as it is, perhaps, in real-life espionage...