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...other films, Jon Voight flashes a box of Colgate shaving cream, Jack Lemmon munches on Cracker Jack, and Starlet Linda Scott sports a tight T shirt with the name of Bell Helmets rippling across her chest. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon, in their latest flick, wear hats made by Italy's G. Borsalino & Fratello Co. The film's title: Borsaliuo. Photographs from the movie are now being used to promote hats in shops...
...Give it [Vietnam] to them," said Claude E. Bowen, a black Marine from Los Angeles. "If the cracker wants to stay here and fight, let him. If they kick his ass, too damned bad. It's about time somebody...
...totally alien to his own exalted New England speech. "My hand drifted up and touched my brow, finding it was as wet and cold as the belly of a trout," he wrote in Out of My League. "It was a disclosure which sent the voice spinning off in a cracker-Cassandra's wail of doom. 'Mah God!' it cried out, 'y'all gonna faint out heah. Lawd Almahty! Y'gonna faint...
...real-life scenario begins in Paris, on Montmartre in 1930. At 23, he is a suave breaker of hearts and a slick cracker of safes. Suddenly, he is framed for a murder he did not commit and sentenced to prison for life-or "perpetuity" as the French, knowing their own penal system, more realistically put it. Shuffled off to French Guiana, he tries to break out nine times. On the first escape, he makes it 1,800 miles to Colombia in an open boat, staying free for eleven months before being caught and returned to the penal colony...
...supermarket age," said the Chief Justice, "we are like a merchant trying to operate a cracker-barrel grocery store with the methods and equipment of 1900." When it comes to funds, he noted, "the entire cost of the federal judicial system is $128 million," compared with $200 million for a single C-5A military airplane. But "more money and more judges alone is not the real solution," he said. "Some of what is wrong is due to the failure to apply the techniques of modern business to the management of the purely mechanical operation of the courts-of modern record...