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...ROBERT G. KAISER 499 pages. Atheneum...
...measure of that interest that Hedrick Smith's The Russians has climbed almost instantly onto the bestseller list. By rights, it should be sharing the distinction with Robert Kaiser's Russia. Smith's work is more rigorously organized, richer in anecdote; Kaiser's a bit broader, more discursive, and given to larger generalization. Both books, superb exercises in political-travel journalism, give Russia what it has always lacked for Americans: a complicated human reality...
...known as Dr. Habsburg, is an author and lecturer on the cause of European unification. He lives outside Munich; he and his wife, German Princess Regina, have seven heirs. Also throneless as a result of World War I is Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, 68, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He has a doctorate in philosophy and occupies himself with administering the family fortunes. His late wife, the Grand Duchess Kira, was the sister of Vladimir; he has seven children and lives near Bremen...
Poker Games. A witness at the House Committee probe stirred the original tempest. Martin Kaiser, a Maryland electronics manufacturer, told the committee that he shipped bugging devices to the FBI through the U.S. Recording Company, which since 1938 has supplied the FBI with electronic surveillance equipment. Owned by Joseph Tait, the firm operated as a "cut-out," or front, for the FBI'S purchase of eavesdropping equipment; the idea was to prevent targets of wiretapping-such as gangsters or spies-from learning the bureau's capabilities simply by examining government purchasing records. Kaiser said he discovered that Tait...
...inspectors pressured Kaiser, the Maryland electronics manufacturer, to change his testimony about price markups before the House Intelligence Committee last fall, but Kaiser refused...