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...apartment, Carpenter crouched in the front bedroom, listening to radio flashes about the manhunt. Unaware of his presence, Diane and Robert played peacefully outside. Helpless and terrified, Stella "just did my housework and cooked dinner and waited for Len." Overhead clattered the helicopter. In the streets, police paced, looking for Carpenter...
...bold escape touched off Greece's biggest manhunt in years. Police set up roadblocks, sent men into all public conveyances to check identity cards, and searched all outgoing ships. Strengthened army patrols combed the frontiers to the north. The Vourlon Prison director was fired, and a dozen of his guards placed under investigation (one drenched himself with alcohol and set himself afire as a result), but all for nothing: the birds had flown. "Nobody," cracked one Athens newsman, "ever got out of a brothel so cheap." Meanwhile, across the border in Rumania, the Communist radio urged "all Greek patriots...
Operation Manhunt (MPTV Corp.; United Artists). Igor Gouzenko was trained by Soviet military intelligence to be persistent, and he learned his lesson well. In 1945 the former code clerk in Ottawa's Russian embassy exposed to the Canadian government a Red ring that was stealing atomic secrets. In 1948 his adventures gave Hollywood the excuse and the plot for a vivid anti-Soviet spy thriller, Iron Curtain. Last July he published a powerful novel, The Fall of a Titan, about Russian officialdom, and how one of its high-ups got cut down. Operation Manhunt, a sort of sequel...
...manhunt of the title is an attempt by the Russians to find Gouzenko (Harry Townes), whose whereabouts are a Canadian state secret, and to liquidate him. The suspense coils down tight as Gouzenko is lured to a rendezvous with death, and there is a jack-in-the-box finish to send everybody home happy...
Cuba's biggest manhunt in recent years got under way one night last week when an informer tipped off police that Aureliano Sánchez Arango, the elusive underground revolutionist (TIME, Nov. 2), was holed up with fellow plotters in a neat, palm-shaded and hedge-hidden house in the outlying Country Club District. The tipster claimed that the rebels were plotting President Fulgencio Batista's assassination. Police, reinforced by army troops, threw a cordon around the district. As 20 radio patrol cars converged on the quiet residence in West Royal Avenue, a group...