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...biblical times, those who handled his kind of work were occasionally stoned to death. Robin Hood and his Merry Men may have put many an arrow into the rumps of this fellow's medieval predecessors. The most famous of his kind, France's devious voluptuary Nicolas Fouquet, was clapped into jail by Louis XIV, who rightly smelled a rat when he visited Fouquet's magnificent Vaux-le-Vicomte, a château that put the Sun King's palaces to shame. King Louis healed the insult by building Versailles...
...scenes intrigue at the arms-control talks [Dec. 5] did what The Day After did not. It scared the hell out of me. TIME's Strobe Talbott has portrayed a rogues' gallery of players, from the uninterested Ronald Reagan to the arrogant Richard Burt and the devious Richard Perle. I never dreamed I would feel sorry for Paul Nitze and Alexander Haig...
...explanation that the Middle East is the world's tinder box the one area that could ignite a global war and that our involvement there is essential to prevent it's Certainly, the Soviets can't be overjoyed with our presence. They too have interests in the region--devious though they...
...shock and disappointment after another. If our elected representatives in Washington are not raising their pay in devious ways, they are involved in sordid sexual adventures. Now we learn that they are living the life Riley never aspired to, traveling the world over at the taxpayers' expense [Sept. 5], with no legitimate end in view. Is it any wonder that Senators and Congressmen are viewed by the U.S. public as less trustworthy than used-car salesmen...
...remarkable permanency"). The hearty Fielding style was sometimes irritating, but his advice about potential surprises helped nervous travelers feel at home abroad. He was lavish with both praise and blame, lauding Greek tavernas and Dutch honesty and censuring rip-off artists like Venetian gondoliers, whom he called "surly, devious, tip-hungry ruffians...