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...multinational corporations against expropriation. ITT now stands to lose whatever compensation Allende had promised to pay; and unless the company can disprove the mounting evidence that its loss resulted from its attempt to interfere in Chilean politics, it may also lose its $92.5 million claim with the OPIC. To knock down that evidence will be Harold Geneen's task in testimony this week...
...called him 'Magoo' because he looked like the cartoon character, all squinty-was vicious. He used to come in the cell about twice a week and beat John Brodak and me. Sometimes he'd beat us for no cause, just open the door, come in and knock us around...
...cast is large and largely helpless. Finch, a professional to the quick, has the decency not to look embarrassed, even when singing knock-kneed Bacharach-David soliloquies with lines like "Have I found Shangri-La/ Or has Shangri-La found me?" Liv Ullmann, practically impacted in makeup, smiles bravely; and there is a peppy song-and-dance number, kind of a Donald O'Connor comic turn, by Bobby Van, who is most engaging as a show-biz ham. Sally Kellerman plays a neurotic Newsweek correspondent. Also on hand are John Gielgud, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta...
...nonetheless represent a defiant protest against the last vestiges of British colonialism. "There must have been a political motive," says one government official. "But it's really a symbolic protest. Bermuda is the oldest self-governing colony in the Western Hemisphere. It seems they're trying to knock the symbols out from under...
...improvise from the same spirituals and rags and blues they've played for a halfcentury and throw in a "Hello Dolly" so that everyone hears a song he knows. Their playing sounds like the earliest jazz records, though you can hear more than the blended brass screech and the knock of the woodblock that were often all that acoustical recording could capture...