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...idyl. The lines might well apply to nine-year-old Hilary Bray and her discovery, in Devil by the Sea, that little girls who walk along the shore can expect to find more than sand castles. The friendly knee that innocent Hilary encounters is the shank of an old derelict whom she meets at the amusement park in her seaside home town of Henstable. Later that afternoon Hilary sees the old man lead another little girl across the marshes. Watching his "clumsy horror, the surgical boot, the clubfoot," she decides that he is the Devil. When she reads...
Charged Allen: "He has abused his position and power and assumed the role of the neighborhood bully. By far the greater number of TV people openly disapprove of O'Brian's professional methods. He is derelict in his duty to his readers, unethical in his methods, and beneath the respect of the industry because his column is frequently an outlet for his personal emotional delinquencies and vindictive displays of pique...
Razzia means raid in most European languages, and the picture describes an attempt by the French narcotics squad to break up an international drug cartel. Raw materials: principally opium-smuggled from the Balkans in the wall of the men's room in a day coach. Manufacture: by a derelict chemist in a well-equipped laboratory in the cellar of a shabby frame house in a rundown suburb. Distribution: by courier to retail outlets, by an infinite variety of special arrangements between buyer and seller. Protection: by hired thugs-a small outfit by U.S. standards, but what they lack...
...clash on any important issue, there has been a good deal of mudslinging. Accusations of conniving with crooks and winking at scandal have been hurled back and forth. Forbes has made the so-called Insurance Scandal a chief point of his campaign. He claims that Democratic state officials were derelict in their handling of the Loyalty Insurance Group investigation. John R. Cooney, president of the parent company of the Loyalty Group, was indicted last May on charges of defrauding the companies of $262,000. He has since pleaded no defense. Forbes finds a "shocking" suggestion of "collusion" between the investigators...
Just how much truth lies behind all the scandalmongering is hard to ascertain. On the Cooney affair, the bi-partisan state Law Enforcement Council came to no significant conclusion. The Republican majority found Meyner "derelict" in his duty; the Democratic minority exonerated him completely. It might be relevant to point out, however, that Meyner was elected partially as a reform governor, that he conducted a careful investigation of the Hoffman case (former G.O.P. governor Harold G. Hoffman stole some $300,000 from the state), and that under his administration the Joe Adonises and the Frank Ericksons seem to have disappeared...