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...Berlinguers, like many other Sardinian landowners, had been squeezed by industrialization and became ardent progressives as a result. Continuing the tradition, Enrico and Younger Brother Giovanni, now 51 and a Communist Deputy, haunted a Sassari cafe favored by old-line Communist and Socialist workers, playing an Italian version of poker called "Il Ramino" with them and arguing politics. Says one of the cafe habitues proudly: "If today he has lucid ideas, it's because he spent hours talking to humble people like us. Politically, we made...
...Poker Games. A witness at the House Committee probe stirred the original tempest. Martin Kaiser, a Maryland electronics manufacturer, told the committee that he shipped bugging devices to the FBI through the U.S. Recording Company, which since 1938 has supplied the FBI with electronic surveillance equipment. Owned by Joseph Tait, the firm operated as a "cut-out," or front, for the FBI'S purchase of eavesdropping equipment; the idea was to prevent targets of wiretapping-such as gangsters or spies-from learning the bureau's capabilities simply by examining government purchasing records. Kaiser said he discovered that Tait...
...Committee-and soon the Internal Revenue Service-focused on the role of John P. Mohr, an assistant director of the bureau, who retired in 1972. Mohr headed the office at the FBI that bought the equipment. He also had close ties to Tait, who was a regular at the poker games organized by Mohr at the exclusive Blue Ridge Club in West Virginia's Shenandoah Mountains; but last November the club and some of its records were destroyed in a fire whose origin is still undetermined...
...control, just as the reader falls from the world of the rational browser into the depths of frenzied addition. Alfred Hitchcock has written about one famous Ambler beginning, that of Background To Danger (1937). Kenton is a British journalist in Germany who has lost all his money in a poker game. He takes a train to Vienna to borrow some from a man he knows there. But on the train he shares a compartment with a man who eats sausage and claims to be a Jewish metallurgist fleeing the country from the Nazis, while there's still time...
...Neal ("I think she is very good, but we are different characters"). She does not date, or attend Hollywood functions. She is disarmingly unconcerned about money. Aside from the $1,600 in a savings account from her dollar-a-week allowance, "a few bets" and "liars' poker with the movie crews," she has no idea how much her manager-mother has stashed away. "After all," says Jodie, "I'm just...