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...many of West Berlin's skilled industries is densely populated Western Germany. But to ship their products west through 110 miles of Red territory, Berlin businessmen must get clearance from Russian trade inspectors. For weeks, the Russians have been holding up Berlin's westbound exports on the pretext that they must be accompanied by "certificates of origin" showing the sources of all raw materials used in their manufacture. Last week, with 12,000 tons ($17 million worth) of export goods piled up in West Berlin, the West met this new threat to Berlin's reviving economy with...
...owner of a house full of art treasures in genteel, turn-of-the-century London. As a down-at-heel artist who stops one day to admire the original Cellini knocker on the door, Evans wins her confidence with a display of breeding, paintings and poverty. He finds a pretext to move himself, his sickly wife (Betsy Blair) and baby into the house. Then he brings in a couple of confederates as a butler (Keenan Wynn) and maid (Angela Lansbury), imprisons the old lady in her room and takes possession. While looting the house of its El Grecos, Rembrandts...
Only one man need by expended. Concealing himself in the nearby W.C. on some pretext until the appropriate time, all he need do is rush one or two shells tot he trusty longbore, jerk the lanyard, and the destructive deed is done. None of your flimsy cloak-and-dagger time-bomb plots--not on your life. Thanks to the keen vision of our forefathers, Harvard is now in a good position to strike a strong counterblow in its Battle for Survival...
Friday night, the woman entered Cabot Hall under the usual pretext, but was intercepted by Cabot Hall's housemother, Florence Garrish, who tried to detain the woman while students summoned police. The woman managed to slip away but was followed by three sophomores from 55 Garden Street, who attracted police to the suspects...
...housemothers said, works through an elderly woman who generally wears a dark coat and a yellow scarf, and carries a shopping bag. Her routine has not changed since her activity began. She comes to a dorm and asks to go upstairs to see Anna Kris '53 on the pretext that she works for Miss Kris' doctor. Miss Kris, a resident of Briggs Hall, said last night she had never met the intruder...