Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night Turkish police watch the massive, drafty Soviet embassy in Ankara and the consulate general in Istanbul. Russian cars are trailed relentlessly. (Sometimes four or five Russians will dash out, separate, pile into different automobiles before the one or two Turkish police can figure out which car to follow.) Counter-espionage is big business here. From the time any foreigner, from private citizen to ambassador, enters the country, his movements are known. A vast army of full-time and part-time informers keeps Turkish intelligence posted on who goes where, who meets whom, who said what. Turkey's jittery...
Randall declared, inscrutably, "There are certain colleges we're little more skeptical of than others," and both the uniformed men and the plain-clothes operatives have been warned to watch out for them...
...another Mountie undercover man got to know Father Taillefer, then made a deal for six ounces of heroin. The priest directed him to Montreal's Central Station, where the heroin was stored in a locker. For three months after that, the police let Father Taillefer operate freely, keeping watch on him and his associates in Montreal's crime belt. When the Mounties pounced four weeks ago, three other Montrealers, who are still awaiting trial, were charged along with Father Taillefer. A cache of 15,000 heroin capsules ("enough to keep the city going for nearly two years...
This week 100,000 jammed grandstands, pavilions and infield to watch Europe's richest horse race, the Prix de l'Arc-de-Triomphe. Despite devaluation, the mile-and-a-half event for three-year-olds and up paid the winners a whacking $122,857. At post time, a few infield sentimentalists dredged up their last sous to get aboard Rita Hayworth's filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players...
...also means that the audience cannot sit back and chew popcorn and know what is coming off. They may even have to puzzle things out with Ivy Film's program. But this reviewer feels there is plenty of room for motion pictures which people have to sit up and watch...