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When the mud starts sliding in Malibu or the smog hides the tops of the palm trees in Beverly Hills, movie executives console themselves with at least one thought: in bad times people will still go to the movies. It is one of the fondest myths in an industry that deals in myths, and everyone remembers Mom and Dad standing in line at the Bijou during the Depression. How much truth is there to that comforting accepted wisdom? None at all, according to a San Francisco financial analyst. When the rest of the country catches cold, so does Hollywood...
...black bank robber named Tex. Ready with a box of wooden matches, I got him into a discussion of the subject and pressed him to the point where he challenged me. Because I had been warned never again to indulge that practice near or on finger joints and my palm was already burned out, I had to use my forearm...
...that I would know her identity. I told her that no one could force me to disclose anything I chose not to reveal. She didn't believe me. I told her to light her cigarette lighter and hold it out. She did and I placed my hand, palm down, over the flame. Presently the flesh turned black and when she smelled the scent of burning meat, Sherry Stevens pulled the lighter away from my hand. Pale, Miss Stevens said she was sure I would never betray her, but excused herself as a candidate, invoking a just remembered plan...
...unrest and chaos. History, after all, has been running on his side: "Magellan had recently circled the globe, opening vast new avenues for greed and war. Europe had more mad kings than sane, and the Devil had both the One True Church and the infant Protestant Revolution in the palm of his hand. In Germany, the very ideas that had filled him with alarm, when they'd broken out in Wittenberg, were now the occasion of such dissension and slaughter that it was a mystery to the Devil that he hadn't introduced them himself...
Last week Ford was getting some solid signs of support. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Ford in Palm Springs and said he would endorse his candidacy. New York State Republican Party Chairman Bernard Kilbourn urged Ford to run. Stuart Spencer, a key Ford strategist during the 1976 race, began putting together a campaign staff. Ford met with Ohio Governor James Rhodes, among others, to discuss politics. He even conferred with John Sears, the man Reagan fired as his campaign manager on the day the Californian won big in New Hampshire. Neither man would say whether...