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Secretary of State Dean Rusk dropped one such hint when, in a press conference on the fifth anniversary of his oath taking as Secretary of State (a tenure exceeded by only eight of his 51 predecessors), he remarked that the response to U.S. peace efforts had been overwhelmingly favorable "except from those who could in fact sit down and make peace." At the same time, cables advising that air strikes might soon be resumed began flowing to U.S. ambassadors in the 40-odd nations that U.S. emissaries had visited when the peace offensive was launched at Christmas...
...time being, many foreign countries were stamping their feet instead, demanding a prolongation of the pause. The Japanese, for example, wanted more time to explore the possibilities of a breakthrough, even though Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina had found no hint of one in a week-long visit to Moscow. Besides, Tokyo has built up a thriving trade with Hanoi and fears that renewed U.S. bombing might force its ships to steer clear of Haiphong, North Viet Nam's major port. Though the British bravely agreed to support the President, they would clearly have preferred that he prolong the pause...
Their names are Brown, Smith and Jones. As the story begins, Brown, the narrator of this new Graham Greene novel, wonders whether names so common as to imply insignificance must not together hint of some bad joke. Could wild chance have united the three on a freighter bound for Haiti and in the improbable events that follow? The answer is no, and it comes from Greene. His contriving hand is visible throughout, alerting and perhaps warning the reader that there is nothing in it to support, or even to deserve, belief...
...account for all of the dwarfs that have been detected in the Milky Way galaxy, supergiant stars would have had to explode every two or three years, instead of at their observed rate of one every two or three centuries. An earlier hint was provided by telescopic observations from the ground, which showed that a few older, cooler supergiants are continuously expelling matter at a sedate velocity of 20,000 m.p.h. Perhaps, after many millions of years, they lost enough mass in this way to be classed as dwarfs. Morton's measurements, which involved ultraviolet light that does...
Cassel impishly initiates a seduction while posing nude for a life class in Rome. He has his way with a working model (Irina Demick), a baker's wife (Sandra Milo), a widow (Annie Girardot) and a winsome ingenue (Catherine Deneuve)-without ever letting a hint of prurience mar his bland façade. Quite simply, he appears to have been overtaken by the sex drive before learning how to steer. According to the plot, Cassel has other things on his mind, for he plays a professional scapegrace taught by his knavish old granddad "to be an idle...