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...shame, Scotland Yard! Nobody in England ought to be able to get away with kidnaping toffs, and they certainly shouldn't be able to keep the victim stashed away for four whole years. The caper involved the Dulce of Wellington, stolen by a slick artnaper from London's National Gallery in 1961 just after the British government had spent $392,000 to buy the Goya masterpiece back from U.S. Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman. While sleuths looked high and low, the thief sent ransom notes, first demanding full value, then offering to settle for $140,000. "When the fuss...
This is the central figure in Richard Rovere's The Goldwater Caper. The , private Goldwater has somehow made his way into the U.S. Senate has become a presidential candidate. The second, public Goldwater a hard-line ideologue who lets his speech writers make him appear less attractive and less open-minded than the private Goldwater. The whole, ambivalent Goldwater is be first presidential candidate to buy computer to find out what the says he has said...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bert Lahr plays an aged safe cracker who mobilizes an old folks' home for one last caper...
...Victory Day" speech (celebrating the end of the 1956 Suez crisis), Nasser cockily confessed to the Congo caper. "We have sent arms to the Congolese rebels," he boasted, "and we will continue to send arms-because the rebels need the support of all honest nations." Inferring a U.S. threat to cut off $140 million a year in aid to Egypt (mostly surplus wheat, corn and frozen chickens), Nasser waxed indignant: "We drink tea seven days a week now: we can cut it to five. We eat meat four days; we can cut it to three. We are people of dignity...
...driver's seat, it goes without saying, sits that gadget-gaga gumshoe, Tames Bond (Sean Connery). "Ta-ta," he chortles as he charges full throttle into his latest caper. Poor James. Little does he know that he is about to encounter the grand master of all master criminals, "the most evil genius he has ever faced": Auric Goldfinger...