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Wilson almost never attends a play or a concert, confesses to feeling "guilty" if he wastes even a few weekend hours on a novel. Sighs an old acquaintance: "He's dull and devious-God, how devious-diligent and deliberate. He hasn't got a principle in his head, except that to him the Labor Party is the ark and its policy Holy Writ...
...Frank Johnson Jr., an old university buddy and he again ordered Wallace to produce the records. Wallace refused. Johnson then issued a show-cause order, threatening Wallace with contempt. There ensued a hearing, after which Johnson dismissed the contempt citation-on the ground that Wallace had in fact "through devious methods assisted said agents in obtaining" the records. To this day, Wallace insists that it did not happen that way. "This Washington crowd had the federal judge back down," he protests. "When and if they say they didn't back down, they are integrating, scalwagging, carpetbagging liars...
...heels ? who has kept her girlish grace though she is the mother of four ? Mme. Nhu does not look the part. To her critics she symbolizes everything that is wrong with the remote, authoritarian, family-dominated Diem regime. But if she is vain, arbitrary, puritanical, imperious and devious, she also exudes strength, dedication and courage. To some it seems that she belongs in an intrigue-encrusted 18th century court, or that she should wear the robes of a Chinese empress ? or both...
...tactics of their harsh foremen and production speedups. The secret policeman, the stool pigeon and the scab nourished. When these tactics were protested by Ford's only son, Edsel, the old autocrat gradually withdrew from him, both professionally and personally, and gave increasing powers and recognition to his devious little chief of "internal security," Harry Bennett, a former sailor and sometime boxer...
...were the products of two remarkable political careers and also of two Britains: Macmillan, the skillful, courageous and often ruthless patrician who had rescued his country from the debris of Suez and led it into an era of unprecedented prosperity; Harold Wilson, the dry, diligent and often devious son of a provincial chemist who had risen by hard work and chance (including the death of the man he succeeded, Hugh Gaitskell) to the top of the Labor Party. As he faced Macmillan, who had gone to Oxford by family tradition, Harold Wilson, who had gone to Oxford on a scholarship...