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...speed handicappers--ah, pigeons--who frequent the race tracks can often be heard echoing the familiar Joe E. Lewis refrain by the end of the meeting. "I follow the horses, and the horses I follow.. . follow other horses." )Damon Runyon made Jules Fink and his colleagues famous by calling them the "speed boys." It was a mis-moniker. They were actually brilliant pace handicappers...
...paranoic fantasies of Ian Fleming's Mr. Big in Live and Let Die. Ultimately, The Lost Alan is notable less for what it does than for what its star does not do. After Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, many black critics found Sidney Poitier in the fink of condition. Now, outfitted with shades and a scowl, tersely barking orders for social upheaval, Poitier may still be playing Superman, but it is a black fantasy this time, not a white...
...usual enlightened square. Her father is a professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He has sold his soul to the Pentagon but has brainwashed himself into believing he still serves the community, his university, and the nation. He has no clue that he is, in fact, an absolute fink...
...blame for Viet Nam ? civilians made the major decisions ? popular frustration vents itself to a large extent on the military command. The Pueblo incident, the Arnheiter affair and technological bobbles like the F-111 have further diminished public trust in the competence of military leadership. Dr. Daniel Fink, a former Pentagon engineer, who has frequently debated on the pro side of ABM, worries about "the belief that these decisions are made by fat, cigar-chewing generals laughing among themselves about billions of dol lars and megadeaths...
...COVER is a photomontage by Robert Crandall. The composite picture, containing photos by Steve Schapiro, Jim Wells, Laurence Fink and John Stewart Olson, symbolizes the major problems that face the incoming Administration of President Richard Nixon. The four segments illustrate student protest, the Viet Nam war, the problems of the cities and law and order...