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...stabbed Maitland? Apparently someone who knew him, because there was no sign of forced entry. To know Maitland was to loathe him; he was a foul-mouthed brawler, a womanizer, a raging egomaniac. But he was also a genius of the first order, the finest painter of female nudes since Matisse and Bonnard. In recent years his paintings have sold for up to $100,000, and presumably prices will rise after his death. Who covets the paintings, or the money...
...United Nations-sponsored, worldwide weather-forecasting system. Control Data had eagerly sought the necessary Commerce Department export license. To allay fears that the computer might be diverted to military purposes, the company pledged that its own technicians would tend the machine, which would be programmed to cry foul at the first attempt to alter its mission...
...become a superstar, he has remained unassuming, claiming no special privileges-other than the right to coddle his bats. On the contrary, he shags stray balls for batting-practice pitchers-a job usually left to utility players and aging coaches. Once when he failed to run out a long foul ball that the wind suddenly blew fair, he fined himself for not hustling. Says Twins Manager Gene Mauch: "As impressed as I am with Rod Carew the hitter, Rod Carew the baseball player, I am more impressed with Rod Carew...
...zinged a one-liner at 7-ft. 2-in. Los Angeles Laker Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "Want to see my touchdown?" As it happened, the script of NBC-TV's Laugh-In revival called for "Want to see my sky hook?" But nobody called personal foul. Gable's gaffe is now part of the Sept. 12 show. Kareem, too, scores his share of points as a guest artist on the first of six monthly specials. When a crew member started chatting about antique rugs during filming one day, Kareem, 30, showed off his rebounding skills with a quick...
This time we have George Segal as a safety inspector convinced that foul play was involved in the spectacular amusement-park accident with which the picture promisingly begins. The audience, one step ahead of him as it always is in this movie, knows that sweet-faced youth (Timothy Bottoms) lurking around the wide screen has got more on his mind than cotton candy. He is a highly intelligent psychopath who gets at least as much fun out of making the cops look like fools as he does out of making thrill rides even more thrilling than they were intended...