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...Munich, in a tree-shaded compound on the banks of the Isar River. Surrounded by a 10-ft. concrete wall, the compound looks like a housing development, with neat lawns and flower beds, lace-curtained villas and administration buildings. At each entrance are electrically operated sliding doors of steel mesh, with sentry boxes manned by armed and uniformed guards. Gehlen's own headquarters are separately enclosed by a steel fence, and his paneled, second-floor office contains only one symbol of his profession: a box of cigars labeled Geheimdienst (Secret Service). (In Washington, Allen Dulles also keeps...
...regular infield in the majors. Third Baseman Brooks Robinson, 23, has become one of the league's best glove men since he came up three years ago. Shortstop Ron Hansen. 22, Second Baseman Marv Breeding, 26, and First Baseman Jim Gentile, 26, are all rookies, but they already mesh so well that the Orioles lead the majors in double plays...
...everything was relatively quiet, too, at the Sharpeville police station, 28 miles southwest of Johannesburg-but Sharpeville was soon to become a headline name the world over. Twenty police, nervously eying a growing mob of 20,000 Africans demanding to be arrested, barricaded themselves behind a 4-ft. wire-mesh fence surrounding the police station. The crowd's mood was ugly, and 130 police reinforcements, supported by four Saracen armored cars, were rushed in. Sabre jets and Harvard Trainers zoomed within a hundred feet of the ground, buzzing the crowd in an attempt to scatter it. The Africans responded...
...character named Lorraine Sheldon swirled onstage in the second act of The Man Who Came to Dinner, gaudy in mink, black satin, and black mesh stockings. "Sherry, my sweet," cooed Lorraine to the bewhiskered leading man. "Oh, darling! Look at that poor, sweet, tortured face! Let me kiss it." After that entrance it was hard to believe the program. The seductively feline manner and the shapely, shaved legs (badly nicked by a dressing-room razor) of Lorraine Sheldon belonged to an actor named T. (for Thomas) C. (for Craig) Jones...
...almost as if she were fresh from a peaceful monkey house. But after her moment of glory, she was flown off to Fort Knox, Ky., where Army Dr. Thomas Davis noticed that one of the electrodes inserted under her skin, a ¾-inch-square bit of silver-plated wire mesh, had started a slight infection. It was decided to operate, using a general anesthetic, trichloroethylene...