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...TAKES A THIEF (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Senta Berger and Nigel Patrick are the guest stars in a comic caper, "Flowers from Alexander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 24, 1969 | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...Inside Daisy Clover (1966). IT TAKES A THIEF (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Fred Astaire also takes on a recurrent guest-star role as the retired master thief and father of Alexander Mundy (Robert Wagner). He gives his son a little assistance in capturing a counterfeiter in "The Great Casino Caper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 17, 1969 | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

From Big Deal on Madonna Street to How to Steal a Million, film makers have been trying to perfect the genre known in the trade as "caper comedies," films which center around a masterminded robbery. Like most criminals, however, the creators expend all their energies on the heist and not nearly enough building their characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Britannia Waives the Rules | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

With that chilling calculation, spelled out in a note left in U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick's Cadillac in Rio, a group of Brazilian terrorists last week launched a fantastic-and successful-caper worthy of Mission: Impossible. Expanding on a terror technique already familiar in Latin America, leftists kidnaped the U.S. diplomat, blackmailed South America's most powerful government, sprang a randy group of political prisoners from jail and got them to sanctuary in another country-on a Brazilian military plane. The abductors' note was signed by two bands-the National Liberation Action Group, a Brazilian anti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: RANSOM FOR A U.S. AMBASSADOR | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...fortunes were hatched from corrupt federal contracts. Early in the 20th century, the National Association 'of Manufacturers bought Congressmen and influenced appointments to key committees. Nothing since has matched the gall of Harding's Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall, who pocketed $268,000 in the Teapot Dome caper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: INFLUENCE PEDDLING IN WASHINGTON | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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