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...pelt P.'s and C.'s open car. The whole vulgar holiday is surrounded by rules and rituals of elaborate illogic. Finally, the moment nears "to do chop-chop," as M'sieur Pierre puts it childishly; and childishly, too, the prisoner seeks to save his last shred of self-respect as he mutters: "By myself, by myself." Author Nabokov saves a climactic surprise for the chopping block itself, where the novel ends...
...stopped at practically nothing in an effort to kill a series of stories on the FBI about to begin in the Post. Banking mostly on intuition, Publisher Schiff charged that she was placed under surveillance ("Apparently the FBI was indeed watching me") ; she insinuated -without any shred of evidence-that her hotel rooms were bugged. On a trip to Washington, she said, she was warned by the Post's White House Correspondent Bob Spivack that the FBI was probably recording their conversation in Spivack's car. Installed at the Shoreham Hotel, Dolly even changed rooms, inspected the garbage...
First, I have never seen one shred of evidence, be it on Bunche, Oppenheimer, or Castro, that could stand up in a court of law as evidence that these men either are or were Communists. As well as I can determine, the evidence of the Veritas Foundation on Dr. Bunche is exclusively guilt by innuendo and association...
...ASKED FOR EVIDENCE ! cried the London Daily Herald. THERE IS NOT A SHRED OF IT IN THE WHITE PAPER. With varying degrees of indignation, all but two of London's newspapers agreed: the Tory government's White Paper, explaining the wave of arrests in the Central African Federation, spoke of "trends toward violence" in Nyasaland but never once offered any proof of the much-touted "R day" white massacre that had triggered all the uproar, the 50-odd African deaths and the 500 arrests (TIME, March 30). The Colonial Office limply tried to explain that "we could...
...dispute found little room for maneuver. The British demanded-and got-sovereignty and access rights to their military bases on the island as the jump-off point for British operations in the Middle East. But by the terms of the settlement the British were forced to give up another shred of empire without much say about how it was done...