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...than a grotto. It was not so much that Walpole couldn't penetrate Dr. Johnson's mind as that he couldn't stomach his manners. Boswell, despite his talents, remained something of an upstart from Scotland. Walpole-who always arrived ceremoniously as a guest-could only sniff at someone who banged on the door as a stranger...
...very earnest and quite uninebriated fellow, and engaged him in a discussion on doctors incomes that on the reception given to President Nkrumah Ghana when he paid Tito a visit before the Belgrade Conference. Exercising uncanny ability to sniff out a political discussion--even from the other side a pitch-black room that fairly tremble from the blasts of Satchmo's horn--the others shouted at the host to "cut this Communist propaganda...
...where the bugs might pick up useful leads for blackmail. For many U.S. families in Iron Curtain countries, sleuthing for bugs has become a kind of sport, an indoor counterpart to the Easter egg hunt. One couple in a satellite capital boasts that its cocker spaniel can sniff out a bug as surely as a pig snuffling a truffle. But new bugs always take their place...
...clever little rascal. The first time he saw a water tap he turned it on in a matter of seconds, and the first time he saw a zipper-zing! it was open before Maxwell could lift a finger. He quickly learned to trot around London on a leash, sniff at fireplugs, untie the tightest knot with his teeth, and sleep on his back with his arms outside the covers just as his master did. And whenever Maxwell overslept, Mij darted beneath the covers, ripped them loose and stole the pillow...
These programs have turned into spot question and answer sessions, where reporters sniff scraps of news, looking for scoops and boring the public in the process. Not only is it unwise, as so many have already said, for the President to appear live and give snap answers to impossibly knotty questions, but the hordes of reporters and the rapidity with which the topics change confuse even intelligent viewers. Surely Pierre Salinger can break the Administration's big stories and answer the usually petty questions reporters are asking. Kennedy is not needed for that. He is needed to explain...