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...Britain, was killed in his London office in September when he unknowingly opened a letter-bomb-one of many sent to Israeli officials round the world. Somewhat more ambiguous is the case of Khodr Kanou, 36, a Syrian journalist in Paris, who was shot to death in his apartment doorway three months ago. Kanou, it turned out, was a double agent; French police suspect that Palestinians killed him for exposing Black September operations...
...motorway. Trainor apparently recognized the two men who drove up to his gasoline pump in a green sedan; he was hit by a fusillade of bullets as he tried to escape them. Peter Watterson, 15, was sprayed with automatic fire from a car as he stood in the doorway of his mother's candy store. Next morning, Francis Smith, 28, a former Catholic who had joined the U.D.A., was found face down in an alley near his home. The I.R.A. said that Smith's death was in retaliation for Watterson's killing...
...MacGraw is a movie star, and a movie star ought to have her hands and feet stuck into concrete. So decided Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, picking Ali as the 158th celebrity to get the concrete treatment outside its doorway (the last person so honored was Gene Kelly in 1969). To her dismay, Ali found the site crowded not only with fans but with demonstrators, who greeted the heroine of Love Story with rude placards. Urged one: LET US GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. ALI MACGRAW, WHO ARE YOU!! Ali knelt anyway, pressed her extremities into...
...westerns turned rock singer, who moves to Hollywood in an attempt to bolster a sagging career. He then proceeds--blithely, almost mindlessly--to partake of the pleasure various apertures of various bodies have to offer, apparently with the theory that if one can't get his foot in the doorway of fortune, an earthier variation of the metaphor will...
...Most of the candidates are not really listening to us. I'll not vote for George Wallace. I still see him standing in the doorway barring the way of a Negro trying to get a college education; but I can't help feeling quite a bit as he does. I also think thousands, no, millions of others are feeling the same way. We are just plain tired, tired of supporting everyone. It really seems that everything is geared to help the poor (nobody really begrudges this help), but since we pay the way, maybe a little...