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...happened to the Sea Otter'? Navy and Maritime Commission men, British agents had attended her trials. But their reports were not made public. This was the main reason that the Sea Otter became an "affair." For more than a week, a lengthy press release on the subject had lain unreleased on the desk of glum Mr. Knox. Said Mr. Powell ruefully: "I thought this Sea Otter thing was too small and unimportant to bother about after we had made our decision." The decision: thumbs down. Some of the reasons, from official files...
...final decision had lain with Canada. The U.S. was willing to put up the money -some $25,000,000 to $30,000,000-and willing to maintain the road until war ends. But Canada had not much liked the idea of an "alien highway" through its territory...
...course there had been hell to pay. But must every fishwife scream about it now? Why must five "guilty men" in the Palais de Justice at Riom be shamed, to appease hypocrites in Vichy who claimed never to have lain late abed, or Nazi interlopers whose dreams were always nightmares...
...caught a 60-yd. pass and scooted for a touchdown that beat the Bears, 7-to-0. Later in his rookie year, he trapped the Bears again with two sensational touchdown passes in the last three minutes of play. Since then-though the Bears' strategists have lain awake nights trying to figure out ways to stop him-the Alabama Flash, pussyfooted and sure-fingered, has robbed the mighty Bears of at least two more Western Division titles...
...scholarly account of the social or economic background of any of the countries he talks about. Such a task would be far beyond his capabilities or ambitions, he asserts. Instead, he has chosen to present a smooth-running account of what he saw and heard in his tour of Lain America. One cannot but marvel that he should so neatly and unfailingly pick out the right amount and mixture of facts, figures, and opinions on which to make his representative characters speak and move about. He is particularly good on such important personalities as Vargas, Comacho, Batista...