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...that Khrushchev said had "already begun," had in fact not even broken out, and the only killings were by Arab street mobs, or by Arab assassins. Not ashamed of sending British troops into Jordan, Macmillan was prepared to discuss the contribution to Middle Eastern instability of the ugly sort of Pan-Arabism represented by the Cairo hero who gets his picture taken smiling at King Saud's side while stirring plots to have him murdered...
...most powerful arm of the society was a sort of Murder Inc. squad called Exepute, meaning "the Chief says . .." It was the Exepute that carried out the grisly justice of the society against anyone who balked at paying the "taxes" the chiefs whimsically imposed, or against those whom the chiefs merely disliked. For the chiefs, murder was also a lucrative business: by tradition, they inherit "all property of the dead, including wives and children...
...Kelly pattern. Her shoulders were slim, her hair simply arranged, her 36-23½-35½ measurements politely de-emphasized. The expression on her composed, heart-shaped face seemed to say that she did not mind being seen in that bathing suit because she was above that sort of thing anyway...
...creates] the sort of sensation that goes from the nape of your neck to the base of your spine when Yehudi Menuhin reaches the theme in the Bartok concerto. You know what I mean...
Hidden Step. For all her declination toward the horizontal, Sally Jay is not all bed. In her ruefully recounted odyssey among the oddballs, she is often comically appealing. Desperately worried lest she be mistaken for the sort of girl tourist who debarks with a guidebook and a six-month supply of toilet paper, Sally Jay manages a world-weary yawn even when she feels like yipping for joy. She thanks an Italian seducer who wants to marry her to get a nonexistent dowry. Why? "For restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it." Only when she falls...