Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pilot Riddel Marvin's pocket, however, the authorities found evidence indicating another objective: a smudged note giving the coordinates of a large clandestine airstrip in the area. The army, tipped off by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, had been waiting for the three Americans. According to intelligence, they were supposed to pick up six tons of grass and another American, who had been arrested last November after illegally flying into the country. The three are now being held in Colombia on illegal-entry charges, and DEA officials say they may be prosecuted for conspiracy to smuggle when allowed to return...
...Coconut Grove section of Miami, Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Hill, the French Quarter of New Orleans and Manhattan's Wall Street. New York City, which issued 5,000 licenses to peddlers last year, actually harbors many more-more even than during the Depression. City officials note that there was a threefold increase in the number of peddlers in 1978 owing to a May court ruling that police must first issue a warning and then a summons before confiscating a street vendor's goods...
...small part of sidewalk sales' allure is the buyer's happy suspicion that he is getting a bargain on hot goods. Police note that most of the merchandise is legally obtained from wholesalers, but there are bargains to be had. In midtown Manhattan, Carl Britt of Newark, N.J., for instance, sells kitchenware from the back of his station wagon: for a set of pots marked to sell at $69, he pays $15 and charges $20; for a set of dishes marked $22.50, he pays $7 and charges...
Indeed, the only wrong note was struck in the U.S., where Robert MacNeil was hired to introduce each hour, the duty performed by Alistair Cooke on Masterpiece Theater. Only after seeing MacNeil, who fidgets through his banalities, does one realize how artful Cooke's introductions...
...these events unfold, the film is riveting. Chamberlain may not do much acting, but his juxtaposition with the Aborigines is brilliant. Chamberlain--the embodiment of the pretty male, a youthful, lightweight, civilized fop, contrasts perfectly with the well-weathered figures of the Aborigines, who bring a note of intensity to the screen, a doomed majesty from another time. When the Aborigines arrive at Chamberlain's house for dinner, they are beautifully out of place. Dressed in ill-fitting suits, they seem to be a part of Sydney's white world, but as they quietly eye the Steuban Glass, the Merimekko...