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...this scene and with these words, Novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, biggest postwar noise in France, declares the text of Volume III in his long existential sermon, the four-volume novel called The Roads to Freedom. Sartre's richly rewarded purpose is to trace the stink of defeat to its sources in the French soul and, before he is through, to demonstrate the uses of existentialism as a spiritual disinfectant-or at least deodorant...
Following instructions, Junius talked to Old Grad Poppe again. Poppe told Junius what to do against De Paul: miss baskets, slow down the game, "but don't stink it up." Junius was too jittery to play very long. Manhattan Coach Ken Norton had to take him out. But his substitute had a great night, sank eight baskets in eight tries. To the distress of gamblers betting on a sure thing, Manhattan upset De Paul...
...Brussels, midway through a lecture on the battle of Cassino and the Italian campaign, exiled Polish General Wladyslaw Anders was interrupted by Communist hoodlums who threw eggs and tomatoes, then let loose a few stink bombs and a boxful of white mice in the audience. Eventually police came and carted off about 150 of the hecklers...
...Paris, when Communist Scientist-Professor Frédéric Joliot-Curie walked into the Collège de France auditorium for a lecture on atomic physics, he was greeted with a volley of catcalls, stink bombs and firecrackers. By the time the cops arrived, the explosive students had disappeared...
...their more accomplished and eminently successful mentors, who have had and still have a vast continent in which to base their operations . .. Filipinos . . . are inefficient all right-even in their grafting . . . With more time and greater chances they will yet show they can equal or even surpass the stink familiar and now taken for granted in Washington...