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Characteristically, the style is staccato, bone-bare, oracular and dull. The format is uninviting; usually four letterhead-size pages printed to look as if they had come fresh from a typewriter. The contents often suggest the confidential whisper of a race-track tout. The cost can be incredibly high: as much as $125 a year for some 3,000 words a week-an annual total well below the word count in one average issue of the New York Times (185,000). Yet so insatiable is the public appetite for inside dope that in the few decades since its birth...
Slim, swaggering and handsome, Lagaillarde liked to race hot-rods on the twisting mountain roads above the Chiffa gorge, was soon known locally as a casse-tout, or hellraiser. He believed that Algeria belonged to its French colonizers, distrusted Arabs, and eagerly embraced every right-wing idea from anti-Communism to antiSemitism. Popie was small, shy and intellectual, and his credo read: "I am an Algerian. I believe that Europeans can live in close friendship with the Moslems even if Algeria becomes independent...
...White House, we will have a friend in him? A.: Why are you using "if?" Q.: What are his essential qualities? A.: Courage, hard work, culture, love of a job well done, a willing and reflective character. Q.: Does he have any faults? A.: Potted too (Pas du tout, or "Not at all"). Q. (edged with Gallic suspicion): That's too good to be true? A. (in most sagacious tones): You don't want me-his mother and best election agent-to unveil the weaknesses of my John? . . . Like the scholiasts of old, two U.S. intellectuals sternly debated...
...flashy blonde schoolteacher named Janine, but called "Coco." A violent nationalist and xenophobe, Lagaillarde declares himself antiCommunist, anti-Semitic and anti-Wall Street. As a teenager, when he recklessly engaged in hot-rod races on the twisting mountain roads outside Algiers, Lagaillarde was locally known as a casse-tout, or hell raiser. He has changed little with the years...
...better clothed, better housed-better off in every way than ever before in history." Before another knot of housewives in a shopping center north of London, Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, demanded, "What's being done about spreading that prosperity among all of us?", went on to tout his party's offer of a nationwide pension plan that would enable all British workers to retire at 65 on half...