Three members of the Chinese Communist delegation to the U.N. dropped in at a bookstore on New York's Lexington Avenue, bought about $70 worth of titles, mostly on atomic energy, the H-bomb and air power. Later they came back for $80 worth more, including Vogue's Book of Etiquette, which would keep them posted on such nice points as Manners in Public Places, Behavior of a Debutante, "One World" Etiquette, Fox Hunting, On Being Entertained at the White House, etc.
After each Red call, the FBI slipped in, jotted down the title of every volume sold to the men from Peking.
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