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...shop in Brooklyn. The numbers of spies who have been caught in Angleton's net run into the dozens. They include George Blake, a senior officer in the British Secret Service; George Paques, a NATO official whose activities were in part the basis of the book and film Topaz; and Heinz Felfe, a high-ranking officer of the West German intelligence service...
...proud of the way I look, because you spend $1,000 a week* to buy my clothes. I go down to Tiffany's, and these rings and things [he is wearing two big gold rings plastered with diamonds, a watch to match and an oversized topaz] just crawl up on my hands." Then it's donation time again, and Ike stresses, "I don't want to hear change rattling; it makes me nervous in the service." The buckets go out, and Ike, waiting only long enough to hear the rustle of the bills, grins and makes...
...case there was any doubt, back in the dim days of Marnie and Topaz, Hitchcock is still in fine form. Frenzy is the dazzling proof. It is not at the level of his greatest work, but it is smooth and shrewd and dexterous, a reminder that anyone who makes a suspense film is still an apprentice to this old master...
Meeting Philippe de Vosjoli, former head of French intelligence in the U.S., was a lucky break for Novelist Leon Uris, who based his popular novel, Topaz, on Vosjoli's account of his experiences. Now it is Agent Vosjoli's turn to feel good about the whole thing. The Los Angeles Superior Court has ruled that Uris broke his contract to split the Topaz profits with Vosjoli and therefore must pay Vosjoli $352,350, plus interest, plus half of all future earnings derived from the book...
...American girls are dirty, with no makeup and hair down to here, because they are doing their own thing." U.S. Author Leon Uris (Exodus, Topaz) was sounding off in Sydney, Australia-a stop on a round-the-world tour to gather material for his eighth book. "Society's chief curse," carped Uris, is the birth control pill. "Sex has become such an open commodity that it has lost a lot of the affection a man and a woman should have for each other. By the age of 24 or 25, girls have had the romance bashed out of them...