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...quite anything. Although he'd rather keep to himself, he gets thrown into an inadvertant friendship with the English consul Charlie Fortnum (Michael Caine), and entangled by the demands of two old friends, now Paraguayan revolutionaries, who pressure him to help them kidnap a visiting American dignitary. Playing on Parr's apparent feeling for his father, a political prisoner in Paraguay, the two convince him to use his connections to determine the visiting official's schedule...
...hard-pressed to care. Although Plarr goes through the proper noble motions--tending sick peasant children, standing up to the police chief after the hospital is raided and displaying proper filial devotion to his absent father--he nevertheless comes off as a filial playboy. When the police commissioner questions Parr about a "crime of passion," he responds, "Passion? I'm English." Try maladjusted...
...department of rehabilitation medicine at New York Hospital: "There is no evidence at all that they help, but there is also no evidence that they do any harm." He warns, however, that people with high blood pressure or circulatory disorders should avoid them. Nagler himself bought a parr of Gravity Boots last fall, and has been getting the hang of them three times a week...
...fate of Salmo salar is linked to its peculiar life cycle. Like its larger cousin, the Pacific salmon, the Atlantic type hatches in fresh water. The parr, as the young fish are known, stay in their rivers until they reach a length of five to six inches, a process that may take several years. Then the salmon migrate to the sea and make their way to feeding grounds hundreds, even thousands, of miles away. Salmon that have spent several years at sea "run," or return to their native rivers, throughout the spring...
...initial press run of Pickwick will be 2000 to 3000 copies. 'These will probably sell for less than $2 each," Parr said yesterday...