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...most likely possibility seemed to be Scranton. And among those who cast hopeful glances in his direction were Leonard Hall, a former G.O.P. National Chairman and one of the party's most astute politicians; New York Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney; and Trib President Walter Thayer, a big Nixon fund raiser in 1960. But Scranton so far has refused to be crowned...
...Lesinski came up with a plan of his own-which would probably give Democrats at least one additional seat in Congress-and slipped the scheme through the state senate with the cooperation of ten conservative Republicans who had fallen out with Romney. This, complained Senate Majority Leader Stanley Thayer, a Romney loyalist, was a "secret diabolical move." Fuming with anger, Romney accused the dissident Republicans of a sellout, but ironically, he may have to sign the bill into law if it passes the lower house. If he does not sign it, Michigan in all likelihood will have to elect...
...Harvard Police riot lights were blinking outside the Yard, and by 10:45 the last whimpering Freshman had retreated. Firecrackers exploded sporadically, and Thayer Hall residents who had been chased from their dormitory by a fire alarm broke into strains of "We Shall Overcome...
...Berlin today-the nightmarish rumble of U.S. tanks massing at dawn along the border, the frustrated rage of West Berlin student rioters, the strange claustrophobia of the beleaguered city, which extends even to the press of boats cluttering the Wannsee of a Sunday afternoon. More rare is Diplomatic Insider Thayer's ability to convey with tape-recorder fidelity imaginary encounters between U.S. diplomats and the Russians in the kind of baleful restricted bargaining that still sometimes takes place in the city...
Ironically, however, what really ails the book is an excess of integrity. To work at all, a contemporary thriller must convince the reader that, beneath a thin shell of authentic background, all hell can and will break loose any minute. But Thayer is so faithful in rendering the Berlin situation of the near past that it is impossible to believe that anything more than another standoff will result from the tense confrontation between U.S. and Russian forces that he creates as climax. It is all a little like reading a cliff-hanging account of the Battle of Jutland. Instructive...