Word: maclean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Backwoods Barrister." Author Peter C. Newman, 34, national affairs editor of Maclean's magazine, is an Austrian-born Canadian who first regarded Diefenbaker with great admiration. He now sees the ex-Prime Minister as a messianic orator who in office "turned out to be not a spiritual leader at all, but a renegade. He interpreted the people's splendid acclaim of him as adequate proof of his greatness." Diefenbaker's administrative skills were those "of a backwoods barrister," says Newman, describing weeks of fran tic search by Diefenbaker's staff for a letter from President Eisenhower...
...Alving, although she improves in the scenes with her son, Oswald, played by James Laferla. Laferla's low-keyed mumbling may be appropriate to the depressed Oswald, but it soon becomes, boring. He has some good moments, however, which is more than one can say for Peter MacLean as Reverend Manders...
...Maclean's voice has intensity, but his bland, uniform and almost constant intensity fails to convince or even, after a while, to entertain. All three of these actors often speak too rapidly. They lose good lines and make many passages difficult to understand...
Britain had Burgess and MacLean, the U.S. its Rosenbergs. But for the most part Frenchmen do not spy, or at least they seldom get caught. Last week France joined the mainstream with its biggest spy case since Mata Hari. In custody for passing secrets to the Russians was a chubby, urbane press attache named Georges Paques, 49, who had served both the French High General Staff and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The case was critical because Paques held a "cosmic" security clearance-highest classification for both France and NATO. The man with the cosmic view had access to intelli...
Died. Guy Francis de Money Burgess, 52, Eton-produced British diplomat who, with his colleague Donald Maclean, was found to be a top Soviet spy after their sensational 1951 flight to Russia; of heart disease; in Moscow. A slovenly, hard-drinking homosexual, less effective at undercover work than the fastidious Maclean, Burgess turned left at Cambridge, passed official secrets while in the foreign service both from London and Washington. He split with Maclean in exile, avoided Russians and defiantly sported his old school tie, but it was left to Maclean to eulogize him, as a band blared the Internationale...