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...question was almost unthinkable. Sixteen months ago, as Britain rocked with revelations that Sir Anthony Blunt, the Queen's own art curator, had been a Soviet agent, Writer Chapman Pincher, dean of Fleet Street's spy watchers, pondered in the Daily Express: "Was M15 Chief Hollis linked with the KGB?" Nobody pressed for an answer, and no wonder. Sir Roger Hollis had spent nine cold-war years as D.G., or director general of M15, Britain's counterintelligence service, a civil servant so umbrous that his name was never publicly mentioned. After his retirement in 1965 Hollis...
Last week, however, Pincher put the question again in a series of Daily Mail articles. This time the response was deafening. The Times not only picked up the story but reprinted the Daily Mail series, excerpted from Pincher's new book, Their Trade Is Treachery. If the accusations were true, said the Times, "it would represent the greatest single triumph of the Soviet secret service." The worry was not only over the British and American secrets Hollis might have passed on to Moscow but also over what other moles he might have planted inside...
...kind eccentric, a penny pincher who brought his lunch to work in a brown paper bag, a health faddist who crawled on all fours as a form of exercise, a gambler who sometimes had $50,000 riding on a single afternoon's sports events. Says Bunker of his father: "We never disagreed on anything much...
...other hand, already knows what a million looks like. In 1958 Rommel and lis family started collecting pennies in a glass jar. By last Thanksgiving he reached his goal of 1 million, which he stored in rolls of 50 in a footlocker. Last week the penny pincher deposited the 3½ tons of coppers in a bank, and promptly wrote out a check for a $7,500 Cadillac...
PENNSYLVANIA. Democrat Pete Flaherty is considered ahead in the Governor's race, partly because he was a penny pincher even before Proposition 13. As mayor of Pittsburgh, he trimmed the city payroll by about 25% and reduced real estate taxes. Even so, neither Flaherty nor his G.O.P. opponent, Richard Thornburgh, is calling for a state tax cut, since Pennsylvania is running a small deficit. Instead, both are proposing constitutional amendments to limit state spending. As U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, Thornburgh sent some 200 gangsters and corrupt public officials to prison. But one of these, Numbers Racketeer Anthony Grosso...