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...condition is well understood by an ex-Catholic Pole, a sadist beast named Kowalski, who taunts Brennan with the knowledge that in following a dream of heaven on earth, he has lost honor on earth and all hope of heaven. A true nihilist, Kowalski knows himself as a "lost lackey'' of Stalin...
...This lackey's lackey is Brennan. With cruel precision, Kowalski gives Brennan his last assignment-on the Feast of Corpus Christi. Assignment: to kill a mysterious ex-Communist who was known during the Spanish civil war as El Carnicero (The Butcher). Brennan cannot approach confession with this last act-to-be on his soul. In the end, he knifes his victim only to discover that he killed the wrong...
...Russia and the satellites. Though British exports to China are expected to double, they will still amount to less than 1% of total British exports. But in British terms adherence to the U.S. position had subjected the government to an unbearable political gibe that Britain was simply being a "lackey" to Washington. Said one government official: "We cannot persuade our people that China is a greater danger in the world than Russia- especially after the events in Hungary. We just cannot explain to British businessmen any longer why they can sell jeeps or tractors or even a tire factory...
...Line. Soon after the Labor Party endorsed Kubitschek, the illegal Brazilian Communist Party stopped calling him a lackey of big business and, in a characteristic display of party-line acrobatics, endorsed him for President. Outlawed by Congress in 1947 (Kubitschek was among the Deputies who voted in favor of the ban), the party still has an estimated 60,000 members and many non-Communists fellow-travel its line. Eager for votes, Kubitschek failed to reject the Red endorsement-a piece of opportunism that has already made trouble for him and is likely to make more...
...hours later, the animal population of the Eisenhower farm was increased by one, as the President accepted another gift. J. R. Lackey of Asheville, N.C., and his son Tommy, 14, drove in with a brown and white pony, five years old, in a horse van. The pony, a special breed out of a quarter horse by a five-gaited pony stallion, was a gentle, sensible animal 12 hands high. A present for the Eisenhower grandchildren, it was aptly named Little David...