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...conspiratorial secrecy. He tapped a pencil on his desk and kept the tap water running in the washbasin to foil, said he, any hidden microphones. McCarthy confided the name of the "Russian agent" to only the committee, and to a few newspapermen. Soon, every cab driver and casual Washington visitor knew that McCarthy's "top Russian agent" was Owen J. Lattimore, director of Johns Hopkins' School of International Relations...
...magnificently in a narrow passage. This is the place of your destination. Please enter in. These young and charming girls has each her own style of love. She is, however, at your service. Charges: Ticals 50.00 and 100.00. There are many more beautiful ones but with higher charges." The visitor, diffident at entering this place, may find courage in remembering that just across the street from Bangkok's Central Police Station stands the Buddhist Temple of the Fruits of Prostitution, a legacy from a departed lady bountiful...
...What does Stalin really think of Molotov? A Western visitor at the Kremlin, after talking with the two Soviet leaders, told this anecdote: "Stalin loves to think of himself as a great military strategist. At the drop of a hat he will get out the military maps. He offered to take me right down to the map room to make a point, and he rose to lead the way. I saw Molotov was bored stiff, so I said, 'Generalissimo' (he loved that 'generalissimo'), I'd like to look at those maps with...
Vienna's diplomatic circles looked on Karpe as no ordinary attache. A frequent visitor to the Austrian capital, he had unusual intelligence contacts. He had left Bucharest at a time of crisis in the Balkans. Possibly he had information regarding Russia's spring plans for dealing with Tito. One American, with long experience in central Europe, speculated...
...once." To one of his aides he whispered hoarsely: "Be sure to get the name of that painter in California." A Spanish airport worker grabbed paint and brush and did a quick patchup job that made everybody breathe easier. Still struggling to regain his aplomb later in the day, Visitor McCormick made a little speech in which he referred to Franco as "the greatest European general of our times...