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This question of the Authority's impact is perhaps the single most sig- nificant factor for the future of the port. There were, of course, unavoidable external elements which greatly hampered the port's prosperity during this period. Completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway provided new competition. A long about with the International Longshoremen's Association was at last somewhat abated, if not resolved, with a new contract. Railroad problems in the '60's caused the Authority to become embroiled in the now-famous rail rate parity case, which had previously enabled Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Baltimore to receive more advantageous...
...some of the younger staffers in Britain's Moscow embassy, smooth, charming Sigmund Mikhailski was living proof that a Communist needn't be a cad. An interpreter, smiling Sig was hired in 1954 and soon made himself a regular Man Friday around the chancery offices on Sofiiskaya quay. When no one else could get Bolshoi ballet tickets, Sig did. He was equally skillful at producing hard-to-get goodies, or black-marketing their clothes or Western currency for a handsome profit. He always went out of his way to help the lonely ones, showed them the sights, even...
Older embassy hands were skeptical about Sig, knowing that he was probably a Soviet spy. After all, local help in Moscow must be hired from U.P.D.K., the government personnel agency for foreign employers. But if the embassy fired Sig, they reasoned, he would probably only be replaced by another spy who might be a bounder to boot. In any case, the younger Britons, who invited him to their parties and went to his, felt certain that he hated the Russians. "You see," explained Sig, "I'm a Pole.'' He made a determined pass at every new English...
Unusual Happenings. Alas, poor Sig! One day in 1956, with no advance warning, the British fired him. Not without cause. Sig's saga finally came to light last week in a remarkably bland report by the judicial tribunal that has spent three months investigating the latest British spy scandal: the strange case of William John Vassall, a homosexual Admiralty clerk who had been assigned to the Moscow embassy for two years, and had been spying for the Russians for seven. Vas-sall's superiors, and all but one of the officers who picked him out of 40 applicants...
Manufactured Compromise. During his years at the British embassy, said the tribunal's report, Sig tried to blackmail three other Britons for black-marketing, got at least two members of other Western embassies involved in homosexual activities ; all these victims were hustled home by their governments after refusing to spy for him. Sig also tried his best to seduce a female secretary in the British embassy, but she guessed his aim and reported him. Still Sig stayed...