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...than friends. But when the White House last week announced Inman's impending retirement from both the CIA and the Navy, the praise for the four-star admiral was downright gushy. Democratic Congressman Edward P. Boland, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, called Inman "the nation's finest professional intelligence officer." Democratic Senator Joseph Biden even called Inman "the single most competent man in the Federal Government...
...taut if predictable double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively cherubic young Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston's connivance is echoed in a scene at 10 Downing Street, in which Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and his advisers pass "the Balkans around like a box of chocolates, help yourself, choose...
...laxmen certainly played their finest and most consistent game. The scoring came from seven sources and Harvard packed up 68 ground balls to the Minutemen...
Despite the large numbers of injuries, the runners who were able to compete had quite a good weekend. For instance, after running the anchor of the relay team. Jones returned to Boston Saturday and had the finest day of his career...
With those two aberrant innings amply rehashed and discarded, we can turn to what was really significant about the ballgame--the tight, five-hit effort by Doyle and the squad's finest fielding to date (marred only by a pair of catchers' interference calls, both, suspiciously, with Caeser...