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...commission revealed that the NSA had fed 1,100 pages of material on U.S. citizens to the CIA's "Operation Chaos," which was aimed at uncovering foreign influences among U.S. radical groups. Last week despite vigorous White House lobbying against it, the Senate intelligence committee called NSA Director Lew Allen, 50, an Air Force lieutenant general with a doctorate in nuclear physics, to explain some of his agency's operations. It was the first time an NSA chief has ever testified in public about the agency's specific activities...
...Iowa to enroll in a Nevada college that promises to put the finishing touches on his art. Instead, the college puts them to Lewis. The entire faculty consists of two con men in the back room of a fleabag hotel, bilking suckers by mail. Fleeing this harsh reality, Lew is also accidently makes off with a strongbox full of several thousand dollars worth of tuition money bamboozled from the suckers of the nation's heartland. Wandering in the desert, lugging the strongbox, Lewis is suddenly set upon by . . . cowboys. Dreams do come true, at least for a while...
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...Lew Harper is Ross Macdonald's introverted detective, whose influence is heavily felt in Night Moves (TIME, July 21). Harper is the original Archer, except for his name, which was changed because Newman's most successful movies always had that lucky H in the title (The Hustler, Hud). Newman is generally amusing and attractive to watch, even when he is chomping gum rather than establishing any stronger character points. His role demands only that he ask questions and piece together one of those traditional Macdonald puzzles about sudden death and damaged children...
Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is almost indistinguishable from Novelist Macdonald's Lew Archer. Both are wearily honest Los Angeles private eyes, suffering the aftereffects of maimed childhoods but determined to remain loners in a corporate society. Archer's marriage, of course, went on the rocks before we met him, but Harry's is surely heading in that direction. Harry believes his wife (Susan Clark) may be fooling around. He shadows her like a suspect, confronts her like a criminal, and they make an uneasy peace. The main case Harry takes up, however, could have come straight from...