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...Bonner which says more about responsibility in male-female relationships (and with the slightest means) than I would ever have thought Peckinpah capable of. "All you are is dreams and sweet talk," says the woman. "And I sweetened the dreams as well, if you remember," says Ace. Ida Lupino, magnificent as the wife, hardens her look though there are tears in her eyes, and slaps his face. "I sure as hell deserved that." "You surely did," she says...
...Allen Sims and Ida Robinson seized a Pacific Southwest airliner and ordered the pilot to fly to Cuba. The plane refueled at Los Angeles and at the Tampa, Fla., airport, which was shut down during the episode...
CRIME. In the eyes of 60% of the panelists, crime in their own areas is growing worse, mainly in the form of robberies, burglaries and muggings. "I used to talk to anyone who needed help and start conversations with anyone," observes Ida Moreno, a retired woman in Brooklyn. "However, many of my friends have been attacked and I was robbed. Now I'm too afraid of humanity." The voters have various explanations for the crime rise. "Moral standards are very low," says Yvonne Morris, wife of a blue-collar worker in Decatur, Ga. "There's too much discontent...
...Loretta Young says Hughes once phoned her, announced that he was taking her to a play that night. "I told him I already had a date. He said, 'Fine, I'll buy three tickets.' My poor date didn't have a chance." Hughes once flew Ida Lupino to view his yacht; she found it draped in canvas. Says Ida: "I asked, 'Do you ever use this boat?' And he said 'Nope.' Then I asked if it just stood there with a full crew ready all the time. And he said...
Sense of Unease. Muckraking seems to be a cyclical phenomenon. Its classic period came between 1902 and 1912, when Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair exposed civic corruption and business chicanery. It diminished in the 1920s, revived briefly during the Depression, and then went into eclipse again during the long period of post-World War II prosperity and contentment. In recent years, however, confidence and complacency have been shaken by the Viet Nam War, explosive social and racial tensions and the youth revolt. All these have bred a deep unease and an anti-Establishment mood in which the nation...