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...contents of the dropped-off bag were devastating to the spy ring. It included 129 classified Navy documents, many indicating that the U.S. had tracked the movement of specific Soviet navy and merchant vessels. It also contained the "Dear Johnnie" letters from the unhappy former spy, Whitworth; Walker's own three-page "Dear Friend" letter to his Soviet contact; and enough information on other associates to lead to the quick arrests of Michael aboard the Nimitz and John's brother Arthur in Virginia Beach...
...question was how to get the engine to the U.S.S.R. The solution was for the Soviet consul in the area to buy a yacht and have its engine taken out and replaced with the Leopard's engine. The yacht then rendezvoused several miles out to sea with a Soviet merchant ship, to which the engine was transferred...
...intensity and impact of Dubuffet's career were all the more vivid for its late start. Born in Le Havre in 1901, he followed his father's trade as a wine merchant and (apart from one desultory spell as an art student in his teens, and another in the 1930s) did not commit himself to painting until after his 41st birthday. Yet by the end of the war, and especially by 1947 -- when he exhibited his riotously funny and touching series of portraits of French intellectuals and writers -- Dubuffet's work was not only an object of public scandal...
With local hospitals or health organizations, the malls are also establishing walkers' clubs that offer T shirts and buttons, merchant discounts, occasional free breakfasts and, most important, mileage logs for members. Walkers keep as close tabs on their totals as runners do of their times. "I'm on my 600th mile," boasts Ruth Kaufman, 60, a member of the Galleria Mall GoGetters in Glendale, Calif. "I could have gone to San Francisco by now." Observes Pat Garmer of Peoria's Northwoods center: "Let me tell you, you don't get in their...
...twelve children of a small-town merchant, Neves, a lawyer, was an unassuming leader. Paradoxically, that was one of his strengths. An economic conservative with a strong sense of social justice, he was about to become President at a time when Brazil's economic crisis (a $102 billion foreign debt and an annual inflation rate of 230%) required determined action rather than inflammatory rhetoric. Though he never had a chance to confront those problems, he came to represent for 134 million Brazilians--rich and poor, liberal and conservative--the belief that equitable economic solutions could be found...