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...Negroes seek equal employment rights, they are often met by an endlessly infuriating question: Are they really equal to whites in their abilities, or are they disqualified by some anthropological defect? The simplest, most frequent reply is to cite Negroes who have become famous. No one can argue about the extraordinary physical feats of baseball's Willie Mays, pro football's Jimmy Brown, Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson and many other athletes. Similarly, the Negro has long held his share of the spotlight in the performing arts, as witness the success of such as Jazzman Miles Davis, Singers Lena...
Actually neither narcotics agents nor the University knows much about the drug traffic in the Square, beyond the fact that it is slight. Both realize that "there has to be" marijuana round and they can guess with little difficulty who has it. They cannot however, cite many names or statistics...
Today, the city's role has been reversed. It is the segregationists who now cite Washington as an example to back up their argument. George Wallace summed up the argument when he told his Harvard audience that "Integration just doesn't work. In Washington they integrated the schools and now they have a school system that's a disgrace. All the whites are feeing to the suburbs. The place has an awful crime rate. There was a race riot there not long...
Chamberlain and Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer before the War, are especially castigated for their economic appeasement of Germany; Simon constantly negotiated for expansion of trade with the Germans from 1937 on. Gilbert and Gott cite this as an insidious and unnecessary aid to Hitler...
With such a setting and such characters Denning has brought back a highly successful formula. Properly, he never lets up for a moment. Let me cite a few chapter headings to make my point: "Stephen Ward Helping the Russians." "The Slashing and Shooting: 1) The Slashing, 2) The Shooting," "The Disappearance of Christine Keeler," "The Solicitor Is Afraid She Has Been Sprited From the Country," and "Was there A Conspiracy?" This, I submit, makes for excitement of the highest order...