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THE FORTUNE COOKIE. Offering the season's lushest crop of crass, Walter Matthau leers, sneers and swaggers as an ambulance-chasing lawyer who cons his brother-in-law (Jack Lemmon) into faking an insurance claim in Director Billy Wilder's latest jab at American mores.
When Fiok refused to lose his cool during the trial's first three weeks, the cons armed themselves with homemade zip guns, broke out of the county jail during the weekend, kidnaped a policeman, and wounded a guard. Recaptured within an hour, they brazenly demanded a mistrial on the...
Remarkably, it took the jury nearly seven hours to find the cons guilty-whereupon Judge Fiok finally had his innings. After handing each defendant a sentence of up to 40 years, Fiok rattled off contempt citations that added up to a total of 37 years to be served in solitary...
Sir: I think there are perhaps very few individuals who cannot identify with your timely Essay on petitions [Oct. 14]. It is very often too great a temptation to sign a petition advocating an issue one is totally unfamiliar with or affected by, merely because uninformed "big names" have publicly...
The oration over, they-meaning Lyndon-discussed what Luci called "the pros and cons," while Pat, Luci and Lady Bird listened. Despite Aristotle's advice that "it is fitting for the women to be married at about the age of 18," Luci's age was an issue. "He...