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...CHARLEY VARRICK...
...Charley Varrick and Nadine used to have an airplane act. Nadine did a wing walk; Charley did some fancy stunting, acting drunk. When air circuses got scarce, Charley and Nadine set to supplementing their income by knocking over banks. Nothing big, just small Southwestern cheeseboxes in which local citizens stash their savings...
Purely by accident, Charley and Nadine finally score big in Tres Cruces, N. Mex. There are a couple of snags. Nadine (Jacqueline Scott), shot in the side during the getaway, dies. And the haul is too big. Charley winds up with two pouches stuffed with hundreds, a little over $750,000 worth. His partner, Harman (Andy Robinson), is ecstatic, but Charley (Walter Matthau) is worried. He knows that the only reason there would be money like that in Tres Cruces is if the bank is being used for a drop...
...President dies does the Veep fulfill his real function. As John Adams acknowledged when he became Vice President: "I am nothing, but I may be everything." Some Presidents are truly surprised when they discover that their Veep has built up a political following of his own. "Think of it-Charley Fairbanks!" exclaimed Theodore Roosevelt on learning that his Vice President had a shot at the presidential nomination. "I never dreamt of such a thing...
Last October, Charley Finley's Oakland Athletics brought color into the series and left Cincinati red. In 1971, the AL's Orioles took the crown, but in '70 the Reds copped the title. 1969 was the year of the miracle Mets, and '68 saw the Tigers take it all. But at any rate, the World Series remains the true test of baseball talent. Much more indicative than, say, the mid-season All-Star game...