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...Soggy Cigar. The plot, said Huddleston, was hatched in Washington, site of the union headquarters, where a special $20,000 "research and information fund" was set up to pay for the murder. Albert Pass, a Kentucky official who is a member of the U.M.W.'s international executive board, was in charge of the operation. He contacted Huddleston, who recruited his son-in-law Paul Gilly, 38, a gaunt, sallow-faced house painter who was only too eager to do the job. Gilly, in turn, hired two other lean and lethal Appalachians who had been in and out of scrapes...
Close, but no cigar. For the lack of resolution of the crisis, the seemingly unhappy endings to the love lives of the minor characters are unsatisfactory theater. The play itself is too long, too complicated, and far from inspired in many spots. Even the patter song is less than amusing. In short, the whole show could use a good play doctor to tighten up both acts. The Gilbert and Sullivan style is recognizable to the point of obviousness: usually, however, Gilbert's quick with and Sullivan's facile orchestration make their operettas work. Yeomen of the Guard, like Howard Hughes...
...coach, Tommy Stephens. Tommy also had a close crewcut, As I entered Stephen's office, he removed his feet from his desktop and stood up to shake my hand. Tommy told me that Yovy had just called him to say I was coming over. As he puffed on his cigar, he asked me how much I weighed, the times in which I had run the 40- and 100-yard dash, and what positions I had played. I told him I weighed 210 pounds, had been timed at 4.7 seconds in the 40-yard dash at Drake...
...hours or so since she had returned from her last mission, 6623 had been refueled and her bomb bay rearmed with 42 stubby 750-lb. bombs. In addition, 24 thin, cigar-shaped 500-Ib. bombs had been attached in clusters to her long, swept-back wings (total span: 185 ft.). At 10:30 p.m., as low-hanging clouds raced past a sickle moon, a beat-up bus unloaded 6623's six-man crew for the night. The aircraft commander, Captain Ed Petersen, a 27-year-old graduate of the Air Force Academy, walked around the big plane, flashlight...
...shuffles onto the home screen, blowzy, blinking, belly bulging, beer in one hand, cigar in the other. He trails mumbled epithets about practically every race, creed or color. He is Archie Bunker of the All in the Family show, the tube's quintessential boob, who each week shrivels bigotry with laughter. Yet to the editors of Focus, the Teamsters' official newsletter, Archie, like the anti-hero of the movie Joe, is just another example of how TV and the press distort the image of the working man. In a recent issue, an editorial thunders: "For some reason...