Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECRET SURRENDER, by Allen Dulles. The organized surrender of 1,000,000 German and Italian troops a week before V-E day is ably recounted by former CIA Chief Dulles, who was its chief engineer and certainly knows a good spy story...
...Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton...
...crowd ranged from the G.O.P.'s 30,000 to the police's 50,000 and the Democrats' 70,000. At the end of his talk, Johnson was mobbed by well-wishers. It took his car 22 minutes, despite the best efforts of police and Secret Service, to move four blocks. How do I know? Because I was sitting happily with the President in his car. We had a fine ride to the airport and a good laugh at his mispronunciation of my name. He mispronounced it regularly when we were together in Congress, and he heads...
...author reserves judgment for the business of war itself: "It is so easy to start wars or to get drawn into them," he writes, "and yet so difficult to stop them. One lesson we learned from Sunrise was the vital importance of establishing a secret contact and secure communications between the leaders on each side of the battle. This is not easy, but Sunrise proved that it is not impossible...
Such nonsense is swept away when a seductive, blonde party intellectual shacks up with him and steals his books. Then she forces the two Englishmen to steal them back from a KGB agent's apartment, after which, naturally, P-G and Manning are kidnaped by the secret police and flung into jail. The book winds up with the two freed from prison and jetting home to London. The implication is that Proctor-Gould is now spying for the Russians. But is he really? Frayn doesn't say. The effect is illogical but somehow appropriate, as it is, perhaps...