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No Word for It. Something, in fact, was happening to the cold war, but no one had yet found the right word or phrase for it. Some called it an easement, others, a thaw. Many, including Prime Minister Churchill and Pravda editorial writers, preferred to speak of "relaxation of tension...
Secret Rendezvous. Mike Pearson, who was en route to a U.N. session in New York, hurried back to Ottawa as soon as the second U.S. note was received late last week, and called a press conference to repeat that Gouzenko had "nothing more to offer." That same day Gouzenko issued...
FROM a midevening rendezvous at a Havana bar frequented by American tourists, I was brought by a devious route, with several stops and three changes of cars, to a house where a man with a Tommy gun stood guard at the door and a machine-gunner crouched over his weapon...
As a result of her confession and her papers, the cops got busy. But they did not make arrests until they were ready. Then twelve suspects were arrested, and braced themselves to withstand torture, but instead, the police showed them photographs of conspirators keeping rendezvous, passing documents in parks, etc...
Navarre organized a spy and counterspy ring which was never uncovered during the Nazi occupation, although he had a series of hairbreadth escapes. Once, when he had a rendezvous with an agent in Paris' gloomy old Gare St. Lazare, the man failed to appear. He had been seized by...