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...become more probing and wide-ranging about character. She has passed from human greed to something at times no prettier but much more universalizing: human need, the ego's fierce need to be needed and be loved, and hence its ugly need, when foiled, to hurt or betray or destroy. In Toys it is not vixen teeth that bite, but human lips denied a kiss...
...sequel was recounted early last week to Sicily's hushed Assembly by Deputy Carmelo Santalco: "About a week ago I was approached with offers to betray the [Christian Democratic] Party I have served for eleven years ... I referred the matter to the head of my party, who advised me to play out the game." His late-night visitors, said Santalco, were one of Milazzo's top aides, fast-rising Ludovico Corrao, 32, and a Communist henchman. In Santalco's room at Palermo's Hotel delle Palme, they offered to buy his Assembly vote and that...
Ladies & Gentlemen. Under these favorable conditions, says Author Terrot, white-slave traders managed every year to beguile or betray thousands of young English women into lives of commercial vice. Their methods of recruiting were many and ingenious. The proprietors of the padding kens were on the payroll, as were the managers of "baby farms." Procurers worked hand in glove with society dressmakers, who sent hundreds of girls from the sweatshops to the knocking-shops. The flesh merchants also posed as theatrical agents. One of them, a rogue named Klyberg, assured stagestruck beauties that in Brussels they would "become actresses . . . ladies...
...horror-struck. I have said I received many letters. Thousands were from schoolchildren and students. All expressed their faith in me, their dedication to knowledge. I could not bear to betray that faith and hope. I felt that I carried the whole burden of the honor of my profession. And so I made a statement on the Garroway program the next morning that I knew of no improper activities on Twenty One and that I had received no assistance. I was, of course, very foolish. I was incredibly naive. I couldn't understand why Stempel should want to proclaim...
...grand, if ornamental, job of President of the Republic of Ireland. Portly General Sean MacEoin, 65, the "Blacksmith of Ballinalee," the man who in the Great Trouble "refused to have an anesthetic while having an English bullet removed from his body for fear that while unconscious he might betray his comrades," had all the proper credentials for Irish politics. But the fact remained: he was running against the Long Fellow himself...