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Despite their anger over the way their U.S. host was peeking into the activities of Americans at U.N., the U.N. high command had to admit that some pretty startling creatures were still being found in the woodwork. The most startling of all was Olga Michka, a slim, cold-eyed blonde of 33. Called before the Senators, she told a strange story of two citizenships. Her parents are both naturalized Americans who were born in Russia. Several years ago, she said, they had split over politics: her mother decided she preferred Soviet Russia, her father and brother maintained their loyalty...
Tangier is only too ready to oblige. Like bugs out of the woodwork, a string of unsavory characters creeps into Dyar's empty world. There is Hadija, an Arab prostitute, who gives him the illusion that he is capable of falling in love. There is Jack Wilcox, an American black-marketeer, who turns Dyar into an accomplice in his currency deals. There is Madame Jouvenon, the Soviet agent who hands him a fat check for "small bits of information." Before long, Dyar is able to feel that he is no longer "supremely anonymous." By the end of the novel...
Vicious Pattern. Slender, studious Judge Streit was never much of an athlete himself, but as a five-term assemblyman and a judge for 14 of his 54 years, he knew just where to dig around in the shabby woodwork. Block by block he built up a ringing, 41-page indictment of big-time intercollegiate athletics. Said he: "The exposure before me is only the lifting of the curtain for a small glimpse of intercollegiate football and basketball, fired by commercialism and determination to win at all costs...
...ladies room in the basement and a new roof will be among the other renovations. The second and third floors will receive new tables and chairs, and the walls and woodwork of the second floor will be painted...
...neglected in the University's attempt to keep our facilities in fine order. In the foyer between Memorial Hall and Sanders Theatre there are various plaques bearing the names of Harvard men who died in the Civil war fighting for the preservation of a Democracy. The plaques and the woodwork around them are well dusted, but the small American flags above each of the plaques are in a worn, filthy abominable condition...