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Harvard's bid for the entire site is now $5,677,000, almost $1 million below the final offer of Samuel P. Coffman, Boston real-estate developer and the high bidder on the property. Coffman bid $25,000 for the extra parcel of land...
...older by 85 years than Harvard. Founded by the Roman Catholic Church as adjuncts to the colonial empires of Spain and Portugal, they were in the beginning centers of relative enlightenment. But after the wars of independence in the early 19th century, they became part and parcel of the rigid social and political system that dominated Latin America through a long succession of tyrants. Not until after World War I did a wave of liberalism sweep the hemisphere...
...Black Cross. Skripov then sent her a letter written in invisible ink and signed "Theresa." With chemical capsules furnished by Skripov, Miss X brought the writing out, learned that she was to pick up a parcel concealed under a tombstone in a cemetery, "the third from the one with a black cross with the letters...
Convinced by now that Miss X was trustworthy, he handed her a big job. She was to deliver a paper-wrapped parcel to a man in Adelaide who would identify himself with a password. What Skripov did not know was that Miss X had been working for Australian intelligence all along, and she simply turned the parcel over to government agents. Inside they found coded transmission timetables for a Soviet radio station, along with a small, high-speed radio message sender. After waiting two anxious months for Miss X to carry out her task, Skripov last week learned what...
...Immortals of the sedate Académie Française recently received an intriguing parcel from an unknown donor. In the mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand...