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...does an honorable Englishman comport himself? Deighton's engaging, complex hero, Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer, 30, carries on, tackling the tricky homicide cases for which he is celebrated (the Pimlico bread knife slaying, the Great Yarmouth seafood murder). Now, however, Oxonian Archer and his boozy, street-smart assistant, Detective Sergeant Harry Woods, are working directly under Gruppenführer Fritz Kellerman, senior SS officer and police chief of Great Britain. Unlike his compatriots, the Yard man is free to move around at will in a prewar Railton automobile; he gets German-issue cigarettes, frequent dollops of real Highland Scotch...
...changing, too. After another year of spectacular performances for the Dodgers. Robinson met again with Branch Rickey, and this time, Rickey told him: "You've earned the right to be yourself, Jackie. You've given so much to the game that you are now in a position to comport yourself as others players do. You're on your...
...Republicans are leaving nothing to chance, including candidates' wives. A manual put out by the National Republican Congressional Committee instructs women on how to comport themselves on just about every mentionable occasion. Dress, for example: "Not too short. Be certain hemline is straight. No missing buttons." Perfume: "Not too much-light cologne better." Manners: "When your husband is speaking, watch him proudly. Never appear bored, even if you have heard the same speech repeatedly...
...Garden Room to open his "Red summit'' meeting. He had tried in vain to arrange a compromise at the Bucharest meeting last June. He had gone to lengths that flabbergasted Westerners, Afro-Asians and apparently even his own comrades at the U.N. to show that he could comport himself as militantly as any Peking proponent of revolutionary violence. Now, presumably convinced that anything but peaceful coexistence is suicidal for Soviet Russia, he had dug in his heels, demanded that all Communists acknowledge his truth-and his supremacy-in ideology as in strength in the Communist world...
...permit the harvesting of the vital sugar crop and restore constitutional rights. But he would not personally run the show, he said. "Power does not interest me, and I will not take it," he vowed. "From now on, the people are entirely free, and our people know how to comport themselves properly...