Word: ferrets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the plot, hélas, acts nowhere near so sensibly. Belmondo plays the bland best friend of Maurice (Serge Reggiani), a ferret-faced hood who bumps off a fence to get the loot from the big Avenue Mozart jewel robbery. Then, on Maurice's next job, somebody tips the gendarmes. Who? Is Belmondo le doulos, the stoolie? It looks that way until Belmondo uses the Mozart swag to triple-cross a gangland czar, gets Maurice sprung from jail, and splits a pile of G notes with his old copain. It takes a long flashback...
...Kenya Rifles stationed at Nakuru, in the heart of the Rift Valley 100 miles northwest of Nairobi, were up in arms. They seized the armory and locked their white officers and noncoms in the officers' mess. Their triumph was short-lived. In roared British Royal Horse Artillery in Ferret armored cars, and in a brief gun battle the rising was quelled, leaving one mutineer dead and one wounded. The rest were quickly thrown behind barbed wire...
Everywhere archaeologists, armed with all the advantages of modern science, are extending the geography of history. Aerial cameras detect the faint outlines of long-demolished walls; delicate airborne magnetometers ferret out forgotten fortifications; measurements of minute bits of carbon establish accurate dates back beyond any written record. Mummies are submitted to autopsy for a knowledge of ancient diseases. Fossilized grains of pollen testify to the climate in which they grew. Reused writing materials, called palimpsests, are irradiated with ultraviolet light and reveal words that were erased thousands of years...
Bogus Honey. Germany has tried to check the third-country gambit by routing all import certificates through the Customs Criminal Institute of Cologne, the only one of its kind in Europe. To ferret out forgeries and check suspicions, the institute's Falstaffian head Dr. Ludwig Franzheim, and his staff have a central smugglers' file of 62,000 names, a list of 7,000 suspicious shipping agents and boat owners, and dossiers on 6,000 unreliable truckers. But, mourns Franzheim, "intellectual smuggling dominates today," and already the smugglers have found ways to beat the tariff collectors by falsifying customs...
...REHEARSAL is one of the most brilliant and bitter black comedies yet written by French Playwright Jean Anouilh. In it, some worldly French aristocrats ferret out and destroy the true love that exists between a count and a governess...