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...between for ivory smugglers in an unnamed Latin American country under revolutionary siege. It's classic stuff. He spends a lot of time hanging around in picturesque cafes drinking Superiors waiting for the next rendezvous. He's cool and lonely and death-fixated. He daydreams of The Maltese Falcon and Captain Blood. He picks up a couple of girls. Then, in an inexplicable error, he makes off with a suitcase of cash he was supposed to deliver to his associates and is on the lam. Gifford is a terrific storyteller, and his taut tale grips with all the intensity...
...innards were those of a utilitarian Ford Falcon, but its shell was sleek and jaunty enough to make it the only auto ever to win a design award from Tiffany & Co. Not even Lee lacocca, the Mustang's chief progenitor and now chairman of Chrysler Corp., expected it to be the most popular new car of the decade. The first weekend the Mustang went on sale, 4 million people visited Ford showrooms. Over the next two years, the company built 1.28 million Mustangs. Young people snapped them up because they looked racy, yet cost as little...
This was their last hurrah. The defense slipped into the lethargic style of play which hallmarked the lowpoints of the team's dissapointing 12-14 season last winter. Three quick outside jumpshots by Falcon Nancie Roundtree put the game out of reach. A last-minute full court press by Harvard proved too little, too late...
...shadow. But then, the ex-love of Actress Jane Birkin is known for being defiantly négligé, despite the company he keeps. Cartier Heiress and Chairman Nathalie Hocq, 29, personally arranged the intimate dinner for 879 and subsequent party for 1,500, chartering eight Mystère-Falcon 20 jets to transport jet-setters to Paris from seven foreign cities. "This party represents the antithesis of disco," proclaimed the proud hostess. "It symbolizes a return to the lifestyle of the past, to classicism and to beauty," she added, perhaps before catching a glimpse of Mile. Deneuve...
...Detroit Lions, the only other team that had won its first four outings, lost to the Atlanta Falcons, 43-28, as Buddy Curry and Joel Williams returned fumbles for touchdowns and Frank Reed ran back a blocked punt for another Falcon score...