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...Bell and Richardson must constantly visit their news sources, travel about three weeks of every month. With 90 extra pages added to the normal 48 pages of his passport, Bell now carries that bulky document in a briefcase. To keep visas valid for quick take-offs to new trouble spots, both men apply for new visas immediately on returning from any country. At first, legation officials objected: "But you've just come back." But now, reports Richardson: "They know us and treat us like commuters buying a new monthly ticket for the 8:05." On a recent return...
...crack open stubborn skulls with screw-hoops of steel. In some cases they are not even permitted to call a suspect a liar; they must say politely: "I suggest that your answer to my last question contained certain inaccuracies." Moreover, since no confession obtained under duress is valid in British law, the catcher must take care not to hector or bully his man beyond a certain point. The professional British spycatcher must 1) detect the spy, 2) confront the courts with solid proof or with confessions which appear to have been made with willing enthusiasm. The spy can then...
...fear Hitler would somehow slip his uncanceled bonds back into the U.S. stock market, thus raise cash. Allied bombs destroyed many of the bonds held in Berlin, and Russian looters took what was left, clandestinely began selling them. Thus there was no accurate record of which bonds still represented valid claims. Another complication was that many of the bonds called for payments based on a gold standard, which the U.S. and Britain have long since abandoned. In addition, the bonds had to take second place behind the $3.7 billion which...
...study they can follow and this diversity must naturally lead to great variety in the men that Harvard produces. If we might venture a generalization, however, about one characteristic common to most of those the University turns out, it is that they can place the modern world in a valid perspective, and can try to make their own syntheses out of modern confusions and uncertainties without seeking refuge in old or new philosophies that seek to explain the world in formulas...
...minutes, and then stop them again for ten minutes, you will have influenced the flow of traffic for hundreds of miles in either direction from the road block. That's what we did with the weather for 21 months." Furthermore, said he: "There can no longer be any valid doubt as to the success of cloud seeding...