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...Frank are hired by a limp-wristed shyster to locate his girl friend. "A switch-hitting sweet lips?" Boggs inquires skeptically, but he doesn't press the matter. He and Hickey need the $200 a day. The investigation becomes progressively messier, involving counterfeiters, fences, torpedoes and other citizens of the Southern California underworld...
Guinness has worked hard on Hitlerian mannerisms: the walk, the deep, throaty voice, the oddly limp salute. He has studied newsreels, books and photographs, even interviewed a survivor of those last days in the bunker. At that time, says Guinness, "Hitler was almost senile; at the age of 56, he was 70. He took pep pills, and at times he would have fits. At other times he would get the giggles. I try to convey that comic side. You know, he could be extremely childlike as well as childish...
...Matthews hardly gives the impression of a crusader. He sweats heavily, walks with a limp, talks in a backwoods drawl, and his shirt often spills out of his baggy pants. But he loves the swamps, which he explored as a child on fishing trips with his father. "All I want," he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron, "is for children in years to come to have the same pleasures I've had in these waters...
Throughout, the University's statements on its relation to corporate responsibility have been confused, contradictory and evasive. Following the first Campaign GM, President Pusey appointed a committee to study and report on the matter. The so-called Austin Report of January 1971 is a limp, uninformative document, which copies most of its ideas, and much of its language, from an earlier study by the Committee on Governance. "Harvard and Money." Without saying how, it recommends that the University should concern itself with the social behavior of companies it has already invested in on the grounds of maximum financial return, then...