Word: semisecret
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...TIME'S correspondents in Saigon, the public apprehension and spidery, semisecret political maneuvering that followed President Thieu's resignation last week had a certain grim familiarity. To Roy Rowan, the scene was eerily reminiscent of Shanghai in 1949 during the collapse of the Chiang Kai-shek regime which he covered for LIFE. "The same gnawing fear that gripped Shanghai has taken hold in Saigon," Rowan cabled last week. "You saw the same scenes: inflation requiring shopping bags full of paper money, wailing police sirens, and the endless debate among correspondents about whether to stay or leave...
...star the audience is; the rest is nonsense." The audience certainly seems to have fallen for Falk. He gets some 300 fan letters a week. Everywhere he goes, he is introduced to policemen who are nicknamed-or call themselves -Columbo. Currently, Falk heads TV Q, the TV networks' semisecret survey of stars ranked according to their familiarity and likability...
Cargill's semisecret operation is fairly typical of most big grain dealers. The company's headquarters, tucked away in a secluded suburban woodland, is a replica of a French chateau. From there, company officials supervise an empire that last year generated $3.2 billion in sales and $38 million in profits. Cargill has more than 12,000 employees in 350 offices, mammoth grain terminals and storage elevators around the world. To move its grain, the company owns one of the nation's largest fleets of towboats and river barges, and regularly rents a 115-car freight train...
Making Masses. Although CLEO has lately basked in the unaccustomed glare of publicity, it is typical of countless secret and semisecret organizations in the U.S. that together add up to what Episcopal Nightclub Chaplain Malcolm Boyd calls an "underground church...
...before submitting them to the state-owned publishing houses. The more courageous writers have been smuggling their works out to the West, or publishing them in a growing number of crudely printed journals that circulate sub rosa and have an avid readership. Young Leningrad and Moscow writers organized a semisecret association called SMOG (an acronym for youth, courage, image and depth). They not only contribute to such clandestine publications as Phoenix, Sphinx, Kolokol (Bell) and Tetradi (Notebooks), but have secretly published whole works, among them Alexander Urusov's tale of labor camp horrors entitled "The Cry of Far Away...