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	“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.” Charles Lamb, 1833 “Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I’d love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.” Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker “I often wonder what future historians will say about us. One sentence will suffice to describe modern man: he fornicated and he read newspapers.” Albert Camus, French novelist, dramatist, philosopher, 1956

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Puppet Master?

Richard Nixon was forced to resign the presidency after Republican spies were caught breaking into the Democratic election headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C.

Years later, John Barrett, the first (undercover) officer to arrive on the scene, explained why the Watergate burglars had been apprehended: The lookout in the Howard Johnson Motel across the street did not see him arrive because he was busy watching a film on TV. The film? The 1958 thriller, Attack of the Puppet People!

The burglars also blundered inside the building. They astutely used tape near a doorknob to keep the door's spring-loaded lock mechanism inside it (so they would not be locked in). Their presence was initially noticed, however, because they foolishly applied the tape horizontally around the door rather than vertically along its edge.

Malcolm Muggeridge: Loopy Reasoning

Malcolm Muggeridge once told former "Tonight Show" host Jack Paar that he had voted only once in his entire life. "On that occasion I just had to," Muggeridge explained. "There was this one candidate who had been committed to an asylum and upon discharge was issued a Certificate of Sanity. Well, now, how could I resist? What other politician anywhere has an actual medical report that he is sane? I simply had to support him!"

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