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Threats. In and out of the Eden drawing room, the Suez group was in full cry. Nearly 40 Tory M.P.s sent a statement to Butler warning against any further softening of Britain's position. Conservative Angus Maude declared: "If we emerge humiliated, forced to crawl to the Americans for every drop of oil while Nasser triumphs on the Suez Canal, then there is no place for me or for scores of my colleagues in the Tory Party under its present leaders." Bluntly, he warned Butler against abandoning "our bargaining strength in return for American oil and dollars," adding that...
Some business leaders still viewed that prospect with the kind of alarm that caused the market to dip after the Republicans lost the Maine state elections. "Venture capital," said one, "would crawl into its shell and creep away." Others shrugged their shoulders. "You might do better with Ike," said Connecticut's Richard G. Williams, major stockholder of the J. B. Williams Co., "but you won't go broke with Stevenson...
...stayefl out of the argument was Texan Williim T. Waggoner, representing the Seattle Yacht Club. When the last heat started, he thought he had the race in the bag. His Maverick was not doing well, but his Shanty I was running in front. Suddenly it belched to a crawl-out of the race with a broken supercharger. Heir to a $300 million cattle-and-oil fortune, Bill Waggoner had suddenly run out of the one element of hydroplane racing that is not for sale: luck. "A man has to be a goddamn fool to get mixed up in this business...
...carnies, and treated as equals. The conditioned freaks are barely tolerated as "gaffs." Among the gaffs, the "geek"-usually an alcoholic who earns his bottle by biting the heads off live snakes and chickens-is the lowest form of carnival life. The Jungle Girl, who must crawl around a cage of snakes and make animal noises, is only a little higher. But sometimes the jungle girls can double usefully as "sticks"-employees who pretend to be tips in order to attract others...
Besley put down his glasses for a moment, then picked them up again. To his surprise he saw the man crawl out of the bushes, stand up, look around furtively, duck back. Then the woman left her chair, walked to a rock about three feet from the thicket. There she sat down again...