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Massachusetts has had less luck peddling pieces of Otis and four other bases. A group of Bostonians has an idea for turning the Boston navy yard into a construction yard for civilian oil tankers, and another group dreams of converting Otis into a recreation center that would be a Disneyland of the North, but so far nothing has jelled. Meanwhile, the blow that the base closings have dealt to local economies must be counted as a price of U.S.-Soviet détente...
...accounts, West Germany has become something akin to a Disneyland for Communist agents. Last year the Soviet ambassador surprised the Bonn Foreign Ministry by sending a messenger over with a package. He was returning the original top-secret files on the NATO-wide exercise "Wintex 73" (the plan of political and civilian emergency measures to be taken in case of war). A complete U.S. Sidewinder missile was stolen in 1967 from a West German NATO base, dismantled and then shipped in convenient pieces by ak freight to Moscow. By official reckoning, there are between 15,000 and 16,000 Communist...
...something about the altitude that made them feel Godlike, but they would invariably begin to rain down calls upon us mere mortals here on earth, and there was no way to talk to them or reason with them." Magruder characterizes Press Secretary Ron Ziegler as "a former Disneyland guide who was scarcely more than a ventriloquist's dummy." Magruder came to the White House from a cosmetics-marketing firm...
Logan, 34, an actor and playwright, based his drama on extensive research into Ruby's background. The play is a sort of hallucinatory documentary. It starts, unpromisingly, as a tourists' excursion through a Disneyland museum of the American dream, then settles into Jack Ruby's Carousel Club. Ruby, in his sharkskin suit, hawks strippers and gimmicks like a twister's exercise board. He is pathologically eager to please and to succeed, to manifest the American dream...
...vary only in the degree of their rottenness. Marlowe's may seem to be a naive view of the world, to be sure: His old-fashioned standards are as outdated in today's Los Angeles as his 1948 Lincoln. But the anachronism of Marlowe--the caring man in a Disneyland of indifference--is strangely appealing...