Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recorder, pocket mikes, etc.-to sleuth on any citizen suspected of disagreeing with white-supremacy dogma. Finding Georgia too small for his ambition, he got authority to spend taxpayer money publicizing racial conditions all over the U.S. Hammering his stock line that integration of the races is a Communist plot, Williams felt free...
...with Nasser, an Egyptian officer arrived in Khartoum and announced himself new counselor to the Egyptian embassy. To the Sudanese government the name of Ali Khashaba was familiar. Iraq and Lebanon had already expelled him for subversion. Last spring Saudi Arabia, kicking him out, accused him of masterminding a plot to murder King Saud. Within three days of his arrival in Khartoum, the Sudanese government charged Ali Khashaba with stirring up subversion, gave him exactly 24 hours to get out of the country...
...plot from here on resembles something built of blocks by a small boy, and then partly destroyed by his dog. Ambrose is deviled by a beautiful lady biochemist, a drug-taking mystic and an evil-looking chauffeur. Someone tries to mash him with a big black car. A tribe of monkeys is mislaid and a corpse or two are discovered. A tappy old duchess who collects causes starts to lecture on the class war at a workers' meeting, absentmindedly switches to a harangue on the dangers of premature burial...
...this were really a detective story, it would be unfair to report that Ilona, the slinky Hungarian blonde, really has nothing to do with the plot, or to warn the reader about the sneaky German archaeologist who thinks he has found a piece of a Dead Sea Scroll. But the book is less a whodunit than a witty who-said-it-in Author Davey's phrase, a shakerful of "the martini of human kindness." Very dry, too, without unnecessary olives...
...plot, spooned out sparingly at the end like onion soup after a champagne-sodden night, concerns a vice ring, but there is not enough of it to spoil a delightful...