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Action along the acquisition front moved at a brisk tempo last week...
...cards in a worn-out deck. The subject of countless scenarios from The Lavender Hill Mob to How to Steal a Million, the hoary story of the happy heist is as much a cliche as the tale of the gun fighter who wants to hang up his shooting irons. Brisk pacing might have helped, but Michael Winner's dilatory direction slows the picture's pulse. The only theft that comes off is Michael Crawford's-and he steals the show. Currently starring in Broadway's Black Comedy, Crawford, at 24, displays a plastic face...
...sense, has Bierce's considerable literary reputation. No one reads him any more. His name rings louder than his works, which fill twelve volumes. In his brisk but superficial new biography Richard O'Connor (Jack London, Bret Harte) does not unwrap the mystery of Bierce's disappearance. But the book does constitute one more testament of faith in the man whose bitter messages to mankind have faded scarcely at all since he set them down...
...brisk February day when Robert Kennedy visited Bedford Stuyvesant. His hosts, leaders of the Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council, nevertheless insisted on taking him on a walking tour of the area. He was appalled at what he saw, and impressed by the demands and sophistication of the CBCC spokesmen. With reason: the women who dominated CBCC have had a lot of experience in drawing up plans for their neighborhood, and they knew pretty much what they wanted...
Outspoken as they were, McKissick and the committee on presidential credibility were the soul of restraint compared to what followed. Sweeping in with the brisk authority of a North Sea gale, British Press Lord Cecil King, 66, promised that his strictures on the U.S. press would be "mild and moderate." But anyone who reads King's raw and racy London Daily Mirror (circ. over 5,000,000) should have known that mildness and moderation are not traits that he admires...