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...when the FBI made its first arrests in the Brink's heist in Boston, Edgar Hoover's announcement, carried by both national wire services prematurely declared that "intensive investigation by the FBI for the past six years has resulted in the solution of the million dollar Brink's robbery. Of the eleven members of the gang responsible for the robbery, the FBI this morning arrested six." When word leaked to the Chicago Daily News that two of the six cops arrested for burglary in 1960 were ready to talk in exchange for lighter sentences, the paper refused...
...chiefly for the light it casts on the inner life of a prominent and powerful man. Although phrases like "to answer Yes to Someone" and "the co-inherence of all things" may have no real meaning, something they represent sustained Hammarskjold during long years when, always on the brink of physical exhaustion, he labored under tremendous pressures, often without recognition...
Chances are, however, that he is merely trying to push things to the brink of chaos and then have the pieces reassembled more to his liking. Said Pompidou: "The Atlantic Alliance must be rethought. It must be remolded, reorganized." Probably true, but how? Neither Pompidou nor Couve nor anyone else in France so far has made any practical suggestions...
View from the Terrace. Just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, for instance, perched on the brink of the craggy Palisades, are the four 15-story buildings of Horizon House spaced over 32 acres of wooded grounds. Most living rooms and terraces face out across the Hudson, with views of the Manhattan skyline and the George Washington Bridge...
Nicol Williamson carries out magnificently a part that is punishingly long and concentrated. Osborne skillfully manages to arrest his hero just on the brink of the absurd-even if his man does persist in viewing others just a bit less flatteringly than they view him. "The whole bloody island is blocked," says the solicitor, "with those flatulent, purblind mating weasels...