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Thus last week did the case of the Soble brothers near its climax. Members of a well-to-do Lithuanian family, they had, according to Jack, been recruited for espionage work around 1940 by Soviet Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria. He had promised them and 13 relatives safe passage to the U.S. in return for their services. Jack and his wife Myra were arrested in 1957; he admitted his guilt, and in return for turning state's evidence was sentenced to only seven years. Robert, a psychiatrist, was arrested last November and has since kept his silence...
...Avventura (in Italian). A less sensational, slow-moving but masterly look at contemporary Italy's bored and depraved well...
...Avventura (in Italian). A less sensational, slow-moving but masterly look at Italy's bored and depraved well...
...even with the war on (see color pages). In sun-drenched Algiers, the bars and beaches have been crowded with free-spending French soldiers. The parking lot at the University of Algiers looked like the showroom of a sports-car dealer, and new apartment blocks were rising fast in well-to-do Hydra, a hilltop suburb of Algiers overlooking the sea. Adding to Algeria's bloom has been the discovery of oil in the Sahara...
...purchases of American goods. "Cutbacks in the foreign aid program would be felt not only in loss of economic progress and hope abroad," said he, "but in loss of markets and income for business, labor and agriculture at home." For the U.S. taxpayer, he had a hope : well-to-do allies should pay more of the foreign aid bill...