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...Smell of Roast Camel. Little more than 24 hours after the Gromyko-Dulles conversation, Fawzi outlined his scheme to his fellow Arabs in the Hotel Pierre suite of Abdel Khalek Hassouna, Secretary-General of the Arab League, a moribund outfit invented in 1945 by the British and captured by the Egyptians. Fawzi's audience-the representatives of the eight Arab League nations* plus Tunisia and Morocco-personified all the quarrels which have rent the Arab world for 40 years. And some of the quarrels persisted at the meeting. But before long the beauty of Fawzi's plan...
...church is the most inflexible in Catholicism, and blurred them in something called a "documentary novel." But, encysted in a perfunctorily told story in which each character is paraded merely as a type-the grasping peasant, the sadistic Falangist, the hardy old freedom fighter-facts quickly take on the smell of falsity. And ironically, although the authors speak in their introduction of enduring daily police questioning and of being "forced to resort to lies, to cultivate friendships among informers, torturers and murderers" in order to keep faith with friends, there is no evidence of respect for the Spanish people. Good...
Hope has arrived as a great many people thought it would--not in expensive bindery or elaborate engraving. But on poor paper, mimeographed, adless, and bearing the unmistakable smell of ink. Voices goes on sale today, and if you can't always make out the words because of the publishing process, it's at least worth the effort...
...hearing room in Washington reeked with the ugly smell of shakedown, of labor hoodlums sweating behind the Fifth Amendment, of sordid fear, as testimony on the Chicago restaurant protection racket went into its second week. To the members of the Senate's labor-management investigating committee, it was quite clear that they had caught the scent of one of the dirtier trails in labor history...
...wants to smell like everyone else at $12 a drop? My husband's after-shave lotion makes me unique among most women I come in contact with, and that at 98? a family-size bottle...