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Walking quietly into Washington's Union Station one afternoon last week to entrain for a Princeton trustees' meeting, former CIA Chief Allen Dulles found himself in unexpected company. On the lookout for his own train, he ambled into a crowd gathered on a platform, quickly realized his mistake. Asked Dulles, peering around in puzzlement: "What is this?" Newsmen quickly told him what it was: a reception committee for Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, 42, who arrived in the U.S. last week as the Soviet Union's new Ambassador...
...Board. The U.S. in 1928 was at the pinnacle of Republican prosperity, but Depression-and the Democrats-were soon to come. In Washington, John Nance Garner of Texas was floor leader of the Democratic House minority. Garner and his crony, Texas Representative Sam Rayburn, were ever on the lookout for promising newcomers, and they liked the look of the freshman from Boston. McCormack voted his party's line undeviatingly. He worked diligently at the menial committee assignments that are a new Congressman's lot, and he quickly learned the procedural rules of the House...
...Safeway burglary, the police knew that extra cash was in the store. The crooked cops carefully surveyed the one-story, yellow brick building during the day. A few nights later, three policemen jimmied the aluminum front door. A police car stopped across the street as lookout; one of the three burglars remained by the store window to watch for a flashing-headlight danger signal. At the safe, his two companions worked with a carborundum wheel, cooled it with cartons of milk. In 90 minutes the safe was cracked...
Along comes David-cynical, selfish, divorced and avidly on the lookout "for a special sort of experience; a kind of imagination of the flesh." Mary runs off with him, although she senses that she is leaving for a "gas chamber." Emotionally speaking, she is right, for David compulsively attempts to destroy her. Trying to understand himself, he inwardly sizes up his kind: "We are the tinkers, who move on; who invite experience but flee from consequences . . . We are the most dangerous of all: the permanently immature...
...says John. "My brother and I don't consider ourselves financial geniuses." From all over the U.S., college friends, family friends, business acquaintances-and a spate of crackpots-tip them off about investment opportunities. Unlike their father, who disliked selling any of his properties, they are on the lookout for fast situations that they can get in and out of while the profits are ripe. Above all, they prize good executives ("Management is everything"), like to leave a company's operation completely in the hands of hired managers, keeping for themselves only an advisory role...