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...Mortimer Caplin resigned in July, the President picked Sheldon S. Cohen, 37, who just a year ago left the Washington law firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter to become chief counsel at the Internal Revenue Service. There Cohen streamlined the legal branch, pruned excess personnel, installed automatic data-processing and microfilm files for his 650 attorneys. He hammered the point home to his staff that the Government's aim in any tax litigation was not just to win the case but to set principles of law. Cohen hopes to build a friendly image for the 60,000-man service, said...
...escaped France and arrived secretly in Britain, where he joined the Free French movement. De Gaulle, as he recalled later, decided that Moulin was "a man of faith and reason, doubtful of nothing, defiant of everything." Within a few months, Moulin parachuted into the French Alps bearing the microfilm of an order naming him De Gaulle's top representative in France...
...industrial plants to inspect production and facilities and, because he represented a neutral nation and frequently had been introduced "from the top by the highest chief," was almost never asked for verification of his security clearance. He passed most of his information on to his contact by means of microfilm, which he transferred with a hearty handshake wherever the two had agreed to meet. He and his Soviet contact even practiced the handshake ("He had very large hands, which greatly facilitated the procedure"), often met at parties or at clandestine rendezvous. Once he delivered microfilm by handshake at the Pentagon...
...that he could somehow make amends for Auschwitz and Buchenwald by helping Israel protect itself against Egyptian plots and plans. After training in cryptography and other techniques in an Israeli-operated spy school in Paris, Hüttenmeister flew to Cairo with instructions to pick up a capsule of microfilm from a Sudanese clerk named Ismail Sabri and smuggle it out of Egypt. The neophyte spy had no sooner taken the film than he was arrested by Egyptian security agents...
...comparison, the Study Center will be a showcase of modern technology. A projection room, also equipped with closed circuit television, will be used for showing documentary films. Microfilm facilities will be available to students, and there will be a soundproof typing room on each floor. A comfortable furnished poetry-listening room will be large enough or use by groups, and the Morse Music Library will be moved from Holmes into the new building. Other special provisions will include a modern language lab, and a room equipped for science concentrators...