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INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. By rebalancing the Pacific campaign on the fulcrum of the Battle of Midway, a noted teller of sea stories (Night to Remember, Day of Infamy) shows why Japan lost World...
...Manhattan, Best & Co. has already opened its new boutique, "The Hardware Shop," and is urging its customers to "show their metal." On the same nuts-and-bolts theme, Bonwit Teller in Chicago is boasting that one of its belts, an Yves St. Laurent creation of plastic and gold-colored metal, is "causing a chain reaction...
After scanning the British businessman's $100 bill, the Geneva bank teller politely excused himself-and called the cops. When the Swiss police later nabbed Thomas G. W. Roe near Lausanne, they happily collected something else: $376,000 in U.S. funny money that was traced to Los Angeles and a British wheeler-dealer named Dennis Loraine. What ensued was a model of transatlantic cooperation. The Swiss sent Roe to California to testify against Loraine, who got six years on counterfeiting charges; the U.S. then returned Roe, who is now serving his own six-year sentence in a Swiss cell...
Behind this recent tale of international crime and punishment was the simple fact that the Geneva teller had just read a counterfeiting advisory put out by the International Criminal Police Organization-Interpol. The glamorous acronym invokes images of SMERSH-smashing undercover men from U.N.C.L.E. but the glamour is a myth. Interpol never makes a pinch; it is merely the information broker that helps the world's police to help one another. The catch sounds small (some 2,000 arrests last year), but the effect is large. Interpol's prey is the big-time international crook-the jet-borne...
...Southern Democrats he could count on were nearly offset by about 35 Republican defectors. There followed some intricate maneuvering over whether the Democrats should force a roll-call vote -adding to the Republicans' distress-but the Democrats finally settled for an anonymous teller-vote victory over the Quie amendment...