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Uses of Publicity. Clark talks (and sometimes curses) out of the side of his mouth, though his vocabulary of profanity is limited; his favorite epithet, which he shares with Ike Eisenhower, is "ybsob" (code for yellow-bellied s.o.b.). Clark is no intellectual, knows little and cares less about art and literature; friends estimate that his yearly ration of books amounts to two at the most...
...France, he whispered a pre-arranged code word to one of the ring's French agents, who handed him 120,000 French francs in exchange for the 1,200 Swiss francs "deposited" in Geneva. At the official rate (30 to 1) he would have got only 36,000 French francs. Thus he was 84,000 French francs ahead...
...always lived by a selfstyled, self-drawn code of "correctness." It was an odd sort of code, amendable by circumstance, but in essence a fierce refusal to be dominated. It had allowed the Organization to accept contributions from prostitutes and gamblers in the old days, but had never countenanced sharing control in return. E. H. Crump had taken, but he had never been for sale...
...Young Ricardo de la Fuente, handsome and schooled in the mannered ways of the Spanish aristocracy," says this novel's blurb, "came to 16th Century Mexico because of a romantic entanglement which violated the moral code of his class and time." One of Ricardo's first acts on reaching his sugar plantation in the New World was to violate Lucita, an Indian slave-girl: he calmed his conscience by muttering that she was "scarcely more than an animal." And when he met his branded, filthy, full-eyed, Indian field hands for the first time, Ricardo's only...
...argue about, but no issue that really mattered. Both Conservatives and Liberals favored close collaboration with the U.S. On domestic policy, the Conservatives had caught up with a Liberal Party that after 16 years in office, fat, flush and divided, had endorsed not only Colombia's advanced labor code but the principle of the annual wage as well. What had caused most of the campaign excitement, and all the Conservatives' glee, was the Liberal split...