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...seems nervous") on her way to Warner Bros, studios. While alert drivers gawk, Kim turns into a side street that leads to the lot. There she tethers Big Sur, goes to star in The Great Bank Robbery-a comedy western about a gang of thieves who make their getaway in a balloon...
Potential riots are far from the only problem. Los Angeles recorded an 8.1% crime rise in 1967 over 1966. Because of its sprawling size, which isolates branch offices and gives any getaway car 1,000 escape routes, it is No. 1 in bank robberies. Because of its proximity to Mexico, it is the marijuana capital of the world. The L.A.P.D. seized 21 tons of grass last year, enough to orbit a good-size army. Because of its balmy climate, it has, notes the chief, a "twelvemonth crime culture...
...thief, James Earl Ray's specialty was botching his getaway. After heisting $190 from a St. Louis supermarket in 1959, Ray left tracks that the most flat-footed cop could follow: he even parked a car used in the stickup outside his lodgings. That was characteristic of Ray, whose most profitable known caper, grossing only $2,200, was bungled when the escape car crashed. The cruelest of his convictions was for the $11 stickup of a Chicago cab driver...
Ironically, after skillfully eluding capture for so many weeks, Ray can be said to have botched his last getaway. He apparently left Lisbon in a hurry because he sensed that the police were on his trail. But under a 60-year-old treaty with the U.S., Portugal-which abolished the death penalty in 1867-will not extradite any criminal sought on a capital charge. Senhor Ray could have stayed there indefinitely...
Room at the Top. One day, sitting in a tree reading Moliere, young Pritchett made his spiritual getaway when a voice announced to him: "You are a skeptic." At 16, he happily went to work as an office boy in the leather trade. Here he adopted a surrogate father named Hobbs, who was cynical, glamorously debauched, and gauntly full of death. After four years, he went to live in Paris, and eventually moved into a writing career via journalism. Could any young man more convincingly escape a family trap? Yet just as they obsessed each other, Father and Mother still...