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...while there, it looked very much as if every third movie made in America had something to do with busting into a well-armed fortress and making off with the swag. Now the heat is on a somewhat different theme-the catastrophe epic-and Bank Shot seems like the tag end of the old caper genre. It also looks much the worse for wear, and its struggle to wring a few guffaws out of trampled material is something no one should have to watch...
Seeking sun and solace, Nixon had moved from one opulent California fortress to another. Just before the pardon was announced, he and Pat left fog-shrouded San Clemente and drove 150 miles east to the 200-acre Palm Springs estate of his friend Walter Annenberg, U.S. Ambassador to Britain. But his swollen and painful leg kept Nixon indoors, away from the 18-hole golf course and eleven gravity-fed lakes and pools. On Thursday night two helicopters carried the former President and his entourage back to San Clemente. The next morning Nixon's personal physician, Dr. Walter Tkach, flew...
...public students showed up for Thursday's school opening. But in South Boston, 90% of the white children stayed away from school. So did similarly large numbers of the black children, most from Roxbury, who had been reassigned to Southie's schools. Outside the brown-brick fortress of South Boston High School, which had a projected enrollment of 1,539 (797 black), a jeering, mostly teen-aged crowd of whites threw stones and bottles at two yellow buses that carried the 56 black students who showed up for opening day. As school was dismissed that afternoon, the whites...
...isle urge? It goes deeper than the fortress mentality of those who fear assault or long for solitude. While most bankers regard island buyers as psychiatric cases or at least outlandish Thoreauvians, a cool quest for profit is a major motive for many investors who never even set foot on their seagirt dominions. Off Nova Scotia there are so many islands-some of them mere specks on the chart-that they are almost beyond count...
...largest (pop. 43,600) city and the center of its usually booming tourist industry. By Thursday evening, they had reached the old part of the city and rescued 12,000 of the island's Turks, who had been hiding from Greek Cypriots behind the walls of the medieval fortress...