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Among his few contacts with others were half a dozen or so phone conversations, including one with California Governor Ronald Reagan in which Nixon denounced the choice of Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President. The former President's few visitors found him brisk and alert on some days, depressed and digressive on others. Repeatedly he asked his callers two questions: 1) Was he right in resigning? and 2) Would he face prosecution for acts he had committed as President...
...matter of months. These days, however, even that pace is frequently faster than the Italian mails. Take E. Paul Getty II's severed ear: when his kidnapers mailed it from Naples last fall, it took 20 days to arrive in Rome-and that was a brisk delivery by Italian standards. Some airmail Christmas cards from New York arrived at Easter time, and letters wending their way from one Italian city to another sometimes take a leisurely six months...
...Dutch metropolis has long had a brisk local traffic in both hard and soft drugs, mainly to supply the needs of its resident Chinese and the floating, polyglot population of young Europeans and North Americans who have made the place a kind of enduring Woodstock since the mid-1960s. Over the past 18 months, though, Amsterdam has changed from merely a drug-using city to the chief narcotics distribution point in Europe. Says Nicholas Panella, Paris-based deputy director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's European operations: "Products from there are finding their way into cities all over...
...Groove Tube, an amalgamation of juiced-up skits on the subject-and at the expense-of television. The Groove Tube first saw life some six years ago as a series of sketches on videotape. It has been expanding since, from the college circuit to its current incarnation here, a brisk theatrical feature made, according to the distributors, "at a cost of more than half a million dollars...
Never mind that it often seems a parody of Zane Grey. MacLean's tale gleefully highballs along at a brisk, cinematic clip. Funny touches are provided by the English understatements of MacLean's Pinkerton-man hero. He is the sort of chap who, on examining an arrow embedded in the heroine's shoulder, might mutter, "Mmmm, Apache, I shouldn't wonder...