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Good Lesson. None of the criticism seemed to ruffle Rupert Murdoch, the hustling, young (38) Australian who last January added the News of the World to the seven papers he owns Down Under. After he and his wife Anna read Christine's manuscript, Murdoch paid ?20,000 for serialization rights, describing Christine's recounting as "a good lesson to all politicians." A frontpage story accompanying the first installment carried the justification further. Noting that "an ex-King of England" and four Prime Ministers had written their memoirs, it reasoned that "what is good for those...
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...last week titillated its readers with two new tales of espionage. The first was the memoirs of KGB Lieut. Colonel Evgeny Runge, 41, who for years passed information collected from his agents through the Soviet embassy in Bonn to Moscow before defecting in 1967. The second concerns Austrian-born Rupert Sigl, who last month ended 16 years of activity for the KGB by defecting to the CIA in West Berlin. According to Die Welt am Sonntag, Sigl took with him the names of 250 Soviet agents working in Germany-a high figure for any spy to know in a well...
...author of Political Change in a West African State (1966), a study of political development in Sierra Leone, and wrote, with Rupert Emerson. The Political Awakening of Africa (1965). His latest work, to be published soon as Chiefs, Peasants, and Politicians, explores grass-roots politics in Ghana...
...furniture dealer, Bill Miller graduated from law school at the University of California in Berkeley. He was plucked from a job with a Wall Street law firm in 1956 by Textron's flamboyant founder, Royal Little. When Little retired four years later, Miller stepped into the presidency under Chairman Rupert Thompson, 63, an imaginative ex-banker. Thompson, a major stockholder, built Textron into New England's second largest company (after United Aircraft) before he turned over his chief executive's title to Miller a year...