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...What would George think today? The world is knotted with defense treaties, trade agreements, international monetary plans; and each year $100 billion leaves his country in a cloud of imported oil smoke. This thunderhead of new wealth floats around the globe, threatening inflationary chaos wherever it hovers. Will it descend on gold, Beverly Hills real estate, Kansas farm land, New York coops...
...vehicle for this where-are-they-now exercise is an Agatha Christie mystery about a director and a star (Hudson and Taylor), who are married. They descend on Miss Marple's village, circa 1953, there to take up residence while working on a movie intended as the star's comeback after a miscarriage and a nervous breakdown. One of the locals is murdered at a reception they give, and a little later the director's secretary succumbs in unpleasant circumstances. Miss Marple, the spinster sleuth-played agreeably by Lansbury in a more subdued style than...
When the fires are finally out, another danger looms. Within the month, winter rains are expected. This year they will descend on barren, burned-over hillsides and dry creek beds with no vegetation to slow the flow of the water. Homes that escaped the fires may yet succumb to the floods and mud slides that are as regular a feature of winter in Southern California as the fires of autumn...
...Under his leadership, armies could move "swift as the wind, quiet as a forest, fierce as fire," and in spite of occasional cruelties, he maintained order and defeated his enemies in battle. But--oh, Lord--how fragile is that order, how fleeting the lord's life, how quick to descend are the forces of chaos when Shingen's heir rebels against a powerful tradition...
Transfer of power begins as Reagan's emissaries descend on Washington...