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...culture the way he built up his cellar (he was a wine snob who kept his Haut-Brion claret in a cask). His custom-de signed carriage may have meant as much to Pepys as his carefully acquired prints. And nothing seemed to have meant more to this tailor's son on the make than his sumptuous wardrobe - at a time when 36 bushels of coal cost ?3 he spent up to ?55 a month on silk suits and cloaks with gold buttons...
...that they are uncomfortable with a clandestine organization that persists in regarding the KGB as a serious threat. In this respect, Angleton's departure is reminiscent of the fate of a fictional counter-intelligence man, George Smiley, the sad hero of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Fired during a staff shake-up at the British Secret Service, Smiley was later called back to root out a suspected "mole," or traitor, who had burrowed deeply into his old organization. The mole resembles Kim Philby, the famed British double agent. It was Angleton who provided some...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre...
FICTION 1 -Centennial, Michener (2 lastweek) 2-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (1) 3-Something Happened, Heller (3) 4-The Ebony Tower, Fowles (6) 5-Lady, Tryon (4) 6-The Pirate, Robbins (5) 7-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carr...