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Tichanak claimed that Councilor Al Vellucci had been either "pressured" or "misled," since he no longer campaigned for the $440 raise. He said he was aware "what a dirty, rotten game politics is," but maintained that city employees were no longer "bums, no longer sheep," who could be "duped...
Campaigning on the issue of opposition to government repression in Algeria, Mendes was attacked by both Communists and rightists, who shouted him down, flung rotten vegetables at him. bombarded him with tear gas. His candidate got less than a third of the votes the Radicals polled a year ago. In the face of such repudiation, Mendes would probably retreat to his old role as a lone-wolf crier of doom. "They no longer understand me," he sighed...
...write a novel while at Harvard, was killed in action as a U.S. officer in World War II, at the age of 27. In his childhood he was shuttled between expensive pillar and posh post (King George V "saluted" him as he rode in London's Rotten Row) until he came to look at his famous father with a cool eye. He would brace himself to lecture him on the evils of drink only to find the unpredictable Hal had become his sober, fascinating self again. The boy's judgement still stands: "Father's a bit difficult...
...Besame Bessamer, the boss's stepdaughter, whose pulse beat, particularly when she is near John, is entirely too magnetic. Along the way of his thin plot, Author Tanner looses his most devastating attacks on flossy Manhattan restaurants and nightclubs catering to lovers of bad food, overpriced booze and rotten entertainment-the result being a sort of reverse Duncan Hines guide. Throughout, the fact that John loves Mary, and vice versa, is seldom news...
...oust Langley immediately from control of the grand jury; the attorney general took it over next morning. At week's end, as the Oregonian and the Journal strained to follow the crooked trail uncovered by Reporters Turner and Lambert, they could agree at least that something was rotten in Portland...