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Police found a sweater, a flashlight, Ciccone's wallet, and four conflicting identification cards on the youth, as well as the television and record. "We may not know who he is," one officer observed, "but we damn sure know what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student, Date Nab Inebriated Youth Stealing a T.V., Record, and Shirts | 11/23/1964 | See Source »

...motor." Once her motor turns over, it seldom stops. Neither does the movie, mostly because Ann-Margret-whose scanty wardrobe suggests that she draws her energy directly from the sun-gyrates with a stem-to-stern fury that makes Presley's pelvic r.p.m.s seem powered by a flashlight battery. Ann-Margret isn't worried about his sacrum, she is afraid he'll break his neck in the Grand Pree. But no. They enter a talent contest and tie for first prize-a prepaid honeymoon in Las Vegas. Since they are already there, the picture ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Way-Out West | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

Snapped. All through the night, bands of rescuers worked by flickering flashlight, rummaging through the rubble to find the lost, the injured and the dead. Air Force disaster units flew into Alaska with doctors, nurses, medical equipment and emergency hospital units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Bad Friday | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

Little Blowhard. Nobody argued. When Finley took over, the Athletics were so deep in the American League cellar that he needed a flashlight to find them. Over 27 seasons in Philadelphia and Kansas City, the A's struggled into the first division only twice, finished dead last 13 times. "The worst team in the history of baseball," somebody once called them, and Former Owner Arnold Johnson made matters worse by turning the team into a kind of farm club for the New York Yankees-trading away such stars as Roger Maris, Cletis Boyer, Ralph Terry, Hector Lopez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: What Every Team Needs | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...minor key. Going from bad to worse, one long scene is awkwardly underscored by a title song, Hollywood's most lamentable habit these days. And the squalid abortion episode is mere nonsense. A moral issue is raised, then sidestepped by presenting a slovenly midwife who totes a flashlight and performs her dark deeds on the floor of a vacant flat. This of course makes abortion conveniently unthinkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New York, New York | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

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