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S.C.O.R.E. officials are mostly graduate engineering students serving managerial stints in a nonprofit, Boston-based organization founded to promote "handson" engineering technology in North American schools. The Detroit manufacturers usually contribute not merely the testing site but also special testing equipment and engineers who serve as judges. James Paisley of GM's product planning group and his partner, John A. Nattress of the University of Florida, are scheduled to review the experimental-car contestants on something called "costs to the consumer." The bemused car owner finds Paisley and Nattress hard at work on the line evaluating a front-wheel...
...against tobacco and notorious French alcoholism, liberalized rules governing contraception, and successfully led a long and bitter legislative campaign for legal abortion. The new "Euro-President" quickly gave the Parliament an early sample of the no-nonsense grit behind her gentle smile. When Protestant Ulster Unionist the Rev. Ian Paisley heckled Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch for delivering part of his speech in Irish Gaelic, Veil rapped her gavel and, in softly spoken French, effectively told him to shut...
Question: What do these people have in common: former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, French Health Minister Simone Veil, British Socialist Barbara Castle, Ulster's Protestant Minister Ian Paisley and Otto von Habsburg, eldest son of the last Austro-Hungarian Emperor...
Some investigators believe that these prospects could have led to Paisley's suicide, or his disappearance. If so, the implications are tantalizing. Could Paisley have been a mole who thought he was about to be exposed? Was he murdered or spirited away by Soviet agents before he could be unmasked? That would not have been difficult: the Soviet embassy has an estate on the Corsica River, from which its large speedboats could easily reach Paisley's known cruising point near Hooper Island lighthouse in Chesapeake Bay. On the other hand, did the CIA arrange his murder...
Whatever the truth, the Paisley case probably will remain one of those frustrating detective stories without a tidy ending. Unless, of course, John Arthur Paisley is still alive and some day reveals what really happened on the sloop Brillig 's final, fateful voyage...