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...birth, height and facial measurements under a telltale system that sometimes even plastic surgery cannot fool. Another ingenious file contains perforated cards that, superimposed, tell at a glance how many persons from different categories (men, women, Dominicans, Dahomeyans) have committed similar major crimes-especially useful when clues are nil. It works so well that Interpol does not even feel any need for computers. According to one official: "Once we get someone in our files, he can change his name 50 times and we've still got him identified. He can never get completely away...
...stubbornness that got her to Viet Nam in the first place. Despite the disapproval of her factory-manager father, she worked 18 hours a day for six months as an interviewer in a Paris employment agency to save the money for the trip. Her professional photographic experience was nil. Buying new equipment to supplement the single Leica she arrived with, Cathy has doggedly progressed from barely competent to the point where A.P. Photographer Horst Faas says, "She is one of the best four or five freelancers here...
...what's past is prologue, Dodd's political future may be nil. Senate adoption of the censure resolution seems assured; it would make Dodd only the sixth Senator in U.S. history to be so chastised by his colleagues. While this punishment may appear lenient-especially when contrasted with the House of Representatives' exclusion of Adam Clayton Powell-the mortification of censure is a sentence to political demise by inches. Dodd will keep all official perquisites, but must inevitably lose most of his influence and prestige, amassed, ironically, through his career as an investigator of others' transgressions...
Grim Example. Saud's chances of ever regaining power in Saudi Arabia are almost nil. The country has made far more social and economic gains under the austere Feisal than it ever did under Saud. Even those Bedouin chieftains whose loyalty Saud won in the old days with bags of gold are not clamoring to have him back. The grim example of the 17 Yemeni terrorists whom Feisal recently had beheaded in Riyadh should also discourage dissident tribesmen from siding with Saud...
...named Erika Mattfeld. They were married Feb. 18 under guard of state troopers armed with tommy guns. His most flamboyant gesture came in his oft-declared war on crime. Kirk recruited a big private-detective agency to spearhead his offensive, and although its accomplishments so far have been nil, Floridians can talk of little else-some officials have charged that their phones are being bugged and their footsteps dogged. Says Orange County Democratic Chairman William Turnbull: "Kirk captured the imagination of the people. He lives a little. He's attractive. It's a whole new way of operating...