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...Philby, the British spy who defected to Moscow, mentioned Angleton in his book My Silent War. Philby found Angleton hard-driving and liked his American colleague. They frequently dined together, and Philby described him as "one of the thinnest men I have ever met and one of the biggest eaters...
...dull. "Love in the Night" like several other stories in this collection, ends with a saccharine postscript amounting to "they married and lived happily ever after." "The Dance" which involves a jealous murder, is so blatant that it reads like a cruddy mystery. Where plot and dialogue run thinnest, Fitzgerald seems to dwell on elaborate descriptions of resorts, bars, and clothes, reducing stories like "The Hotel Child" to lists of Europe's lush spots. Even the rich can be handled adroitly; in these stories they...
...months before the end, Haig and Kissinger saw an anguished impeachment trial, bare survival for Nixon. And even that was the thinnest of hunches. Did Haig begin to ease the way for a Nixon resignation then? Probably...
...tribute Dame Sibyl exacted from the islanders included the traditional tenth sheaf of all cereals harvested and a live chicken each year as tax on every kitchen chimney on her tenants' houses. Even so, she observed with her usual wryness, "they only give me the thinnest and oldest." Other seigneurial privileges included the right to keep bitches, forbidden to the Sarkese for fear that a proliferation of dogs might drive sheep over the island's 300-ft. cliffs into the English Channel. That noble prerogative caused one of the rare Sark rebellions against Dame Sibyl's authority...
...does propose a plan, Bok will be walking on the thinnest ice of his Administration. A June 1969 ROTC final asked, "Should officer procurement come from the campus through ROTC, or should another type program be used?" Explain...