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Candid Admission. Nonetheless, in his oblique fashion, Charles de Gaulle seemed to be indicating that he knew something that everyone else had missed. A heady scent of behind-the-scenes bargaining was in the air. Modifying the rebels' previous insistence that any negotiations must be held in neutral territory, Ferhat Abbas, "Prime Minister" of the Algerian rebel government, announced that he would be willing to go to Paris to talk with De Gaulle after preliminary contacts in a neutral country...
...smell of an election year was in the air, and in the House of Commons frisky politicians responded to the scent. Debates became more edged, remarks more personal. In a week of such infighting, the Labor Opposition had a bad time...
...follow. On the afternoon of Oct. 6, 1954, he walked out of his Athens home, telling his wife Kiki: "Don't worry. I'll be back soon." But he also instructed her to burn his old clothes, so that no dog could pick up a scent from his clothing (the British once offered $1,400 for an old suit of Grivas...
Nevertheless, there are moments when a whiff of West goes drifting through the theater like a scent of cyanide emitted by a pretty bonbon; and most of those moments involve Maureen Stapleton, a gifted actress from Broadway who, in her first movie role, impersonates a revolting specimen discovered by Miss Lonelyhearts on a "field trip" among his correspondents. But most of the time the spectator is apt to find himself feeling, as Author West puts it, "like an empty bottle that is slowly being filled with warm, dirty water...
...hard to intimidate. They'll go to any unlikely place to get at the facts, and they wanted to learn more-they already know a little -about what happens to a man's mind and body when he goes without sleep. The medicine men, lured by the scent of big data, moved in on the ballyhoo of a Times Square stunt, set up an elaborate laboratory in the Hotel Astor, poked and pried and quizzed Disk Jockey Peter Tripp for 200 sleepless hours. It will take months to sift the stacks of data they gathered. Tripp gave...