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Arrested in their Manhattan apartment on charges of spying for Russia, Lithuanian-born Jack Soble and his wife Myra replied "not guilty" when a clerk at the federal courthouse last February asked them how they pleaded. Last week, pale, haggard but looking strangely relaxed, the Sobles switched their plea to guilty on a count of conspiring with Soviet agents to "receive and obtain" U.S. defense secrets. Maximum sentence: $10,000 fine and ten years' imprisonment...
...with an "infamous Major Kinryce." One day the unthinkable happens: Mrs. Kinryce tries to fire him. Edward "thought pityingly that she might be going mad. 'Excuse me, Madam, but you can't dismiss me. I only take notice from Major Kinryce.' Her cold eyes in her haggard face fixed him fearfully. 'I shot him just now with his old service pistol . . . You must go and fetch me a policeman...
...wound in the parents' hearts, however, and by last week, though Régine still refused to name its father, her own mother and father bought a crib and layette and were looking forward to the birth of their grandchild. But it was not to be. One night, haggard and distracted, the young parish priest rushed in to report a fearful thing: he had found Régine shot through the head on a country road, beside her the child, cut out of her body and cruelly stabbed to death...
...Chairman Leonard Hall. After Hall, in rapid order, came California's Senator Bill Knowland, Convention Chairman Joe Martin, Platform Committee Chairman Prescott Bush and a string of others, including Detroit's Mayor Albert Cobo, who is running for governor of Michigan. Dick Nixon's Republican critic, haggard Harold Stassen, appeared on the sixth floor, conferred for an hour and a half with Presidential Staff Chief Sherman Adams before seeing Ike for ten minutes. The immediate aftermath of Stassen's visit: the first live TV presidential press conference in U.S. history...
...somewhat spavined and haggard, a kind of walking ruin of a roué, and, of course, old enough to be Dominique's father. What makes their liaison inevitable is that they both fear the binding emotions of real love like a plague and hence, in Author Sagan's Sartrian thinking, respect each other's freedom. Both cherish isolated moments of intense sensation, encountered rather like chance oases in the desert journey of what they regard as life's everyday meaninglessness. After one passionate week on the Riviera stretches into two, Dominique finds that she cannot hand...