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...head upstairs to where Maddox is scheduled to address several midwestern delegations. The elevator fills up and an elderly man shoots me a quick "Hello young fella." I bait him. "Mr. Maddox, what would you have done if this was 1968 and there were demonstrators downstairs?" "I think Mayor Daley did the right thing," Lester Maddox says, emerging from the elevator to tell the crowd "regardless of where everyone else stands today, I'll still be Lester Maddox tomorrow...
...bait that Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, offered to Jaworski to become Special Prosecutor: "Haig said, 'You're highly regarded, and it's no secret that you're high on the list for appointment to the Supreme Court.' I suppressed a smile. The remark could have been part flattery, part fact, but I suspected it was all bait...
Broad Front. According to newsmen Bolles talked to after receiving Adamson's call, Adamson told Bolles that he could link Senator Barry Goldwater and Representative Sam Steiger to land fraud schemes. But there is no credible evidence involving either. Authorities believe that the names were used only as bait to entice Bolles. Of considerable interest to investigators is the role of Neal Roberts, a Phoenix attorney and an associate of both Adamson and Ned Warren, the so-called "Godfather" of Arizona land fraud schemes. Roberts quickly stepped forth with an alibi for Adamson, claiming that the two were together...
Readers who wonder why the author stretches Miss Herbert over 300 pages will also wonder why the book is difficult to put down. The reason is that Stead has constructed her trap with extraordinary craftsmanship and provided the perfect bait: a woman persuasively beautiful enough to arouse envy in the female and interest in the male...
There she befriends Vincent Lazlo, a homosexual designer who turns her into My Fair Lady. His scheme is to shape Lilly into marriage bait for a rich - preferably old - man. Instead, she is snared by Harry Shawcross, a young producer of public relations films who needs a presentable wife to complete his résumé. As Mrs. Shawcross, Lilly moves to Washington where Harry is on the fringes of John Kennedy's Camelot. But she refuses to play the docile Guinevere. At one point she even draws attention to herself when she is the only woman...