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While much of Bubbling Brown Sug ar is saturated with nostalgia, one girl in it, Vivian Reed, has the fresh, flaming force of a new comet entering the earth's orbit. Her movement is sinuous, her presence is magnetic, her voice is torchy. Sans Con Edison, she could light up a Broadway marquee...
...then, is Fred V. Malek? Was he indeed a hatchet man under H.R. Haldeman who devised schemes to illegally circumvent the Civil Service and other federal departments in rewarding Nixon's friends and punishing his enemies. Did he con the Ervin Committee when he denied having authorized a White House grantmanship proposal drawn up by his staff, which he himself admitted would have proved illegal if implemented? Let's call this dossier number one on Fred Malek...
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...nine o'clock in the evening and the senator had a cafe con leche with a roll in his favorite cafe. At that moment two men entered, took out some enormous pistols and shot at the senator. Innocent or guilty, what is certain is that the senator was eating a roll when they killed him, staining his white linen suit with spilled blood and cafe con leche...
...with UNITA troops in the south. But the romantic dream of glory that many of them had before going to Angola is not reality-at least according to the bitter tales told by British "meres" who have escaped from this singularly unglamorous war. "The whole thing is a gigantic con trick," complained a burly ex-R.A.F. sergeant named Tom Chambers, who recently returned to London from Angola. "The mercenary force is a bloody shambles...