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...District Court at Alexandria, Va. last week, Joseph Sydney Petersen Jr., 40, a gangling, cross-eyed former research analyst in the National Security Agency, the Government's topmost secret hive of codebreakers and message-interceptors, pleaded guilty to espionage...
Through the two years of terror, probably no Englishman in Kenya was more sympathetic to the problems and irritations besetting the Kikuyu than sixtyish Arundel Gray Leakey, a resident of Kenya for close to half a century. Like his better-known cousin, L.S.B. Leakey, the world's topmost authority on Kikuyu manners and morals and official interpreter at the trial of Mau Mau Chieftain Jomo Kenyatta, Gray Leakey had been accepted into the Kikuyu tribe as a "blood brother" and spoke the native language as readily as he did English. Refusing to believe that Mau Mau would harm either...
...cars yet to be born. Only a handful of people were allowed in the room; few even knew its location. On a platform in the center stood the reason for the tight security. There for inspection by Harlow H. ("Red") Curtice, president of General Motors Corp., was the topmost secret of the greatest manufacturing corporation in the world-a full-sized, blue-and-ivory clay model of the Chevrolet...
...These small-fry complaints (and the big treatment they got) were the visible signs of a great internal problem which was besetting Russia's topmost leaders last week. Russia's vast new emergency farm program was going badly. The outcome may well determine the future of Nikita Khrushchev, the Communist Party secretary who in one year has risen so high that he now stands side by side with Premier Georgy Malenkov in a diumvirate ruling Soviet Russia...
...Pretty Tune. The typewriter's future was obscure in its infancy. Not even Inventor Sholes had faith in it. But Promoter James Densmore. like Sholes a former newspaperman, believed in it "from the topmost corner of my hat to the bottommost head of the nails of my boot heels." He wanted to play Sholes' "literary piano" to the tune of a million dollars...