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...window and-wham! The chief inspector (Herbert Lorn) bursts through the bedroom door, the bedroom door clouts Clouseau in the suffix, Clouseau takes off as though there were lead as well as copper in his alloy. When next seen he is digging himself out of a gravel driveway two stories below and cringing as the chief inspector scornfully adds insult to injury. "Clouseau!" the old brute bellows. "You're off the case...
...himself was elated, and he meant to share his joy with the nation. It was almost 6:20 p.m., and he decided he wanted to go on national television-right now. He all but ran out of the White House, jumped into a limousine that shot out of the driveway so fast that it sped right past its waiting escort of four motorcycle cops. The policemen caught up, led a wild 50-m.p.h. ride to the Columbia Broadcasting System studios four miles away. During the trip one befuddled officer shouted to another, "Where are we going...
Spiraling Cost. Approached by a giant horseshoe driveway bordered by artificial ponds, the mansion glistens by day with $1,000,000 worth of solar screens intended to reflect the sunlight and reduce heat, and by night is an explosion of brilliance, studded from top to bottom with dazzling fluorescent lights that are said to attract most of Monrovia's flies. Because of the uncertainty of the city's public utilities, the mansion has its own emergency power plant, water supply and sewage system. Such lavish accouterments plus some eyebrow-raising financing methods explain why the cost...
...President's family left their black limousines, fell in behind the restless capers of Black Jack and the slow-turning wheels of the caisson. Behind them strode President Johnson, and his wife. Next, a limousine carrying Caroline and John cruised out the gate. Then the White House driveway filled, gatepost to gatepost, with a moving mass. Like a slow, powerful river, it poured out onto Pennsylvania Avenue, and not until then did the makeup of that seemingly formless crowd come clear...
...through the crowd to her car. Mme. Nhu rushed in and slumped in the back seat, then turned and sobbed helplessly in Le Thuy's arms. A short time later, at the entrance to Chase's four-acre estate, the same squad of camera carriers blocked the driveway, forcing the car to a stop. One TV type poked a microphone through the car window, almost hitting Mme. Nhu in the face. She shrank into a corner of the seat. Cops again shouldered the crowd aside and the car sped through. A cameraman was enraged. He shouted after...