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...London suburb, the police are engaged in an all-out man hunt for a sex pervert who molests children. Connery is a detective who brings a peculiar passion to the pursuit. When a prime suspect (Ian Bannen) is captured, Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit...
...based executives of the threatened companies maintained sphinxlike silence about the demand, but other oilmen in Tripoli believe that the firms did submit vaguely worded takeover proposals before the deadline. Nervous Americans, faced with the peculiar task of proposing terms for their own buyout, complained privately that they did not know exactly what Gaddafi meant by "100% control." At minimum, Gaddafi might settle for part ownership of their assets and the appointment of Libyan nationals as chief executives. At the extreme, he will push for complete nationalization...
Even without this spring's peculiar catastrophes, there might still have been a rail capacity crisis. Simply put, the roots of the big back-up are a shortage of railroad grain cars and the inefficient methods by which those already in service are operated. The railroads are trying to remedy the first problem by ordering record numbers of grain cars...
...filers to have it rescinded. Faced with that kind of pressure, union representatives struck a tougher stance in their dealings with fourth-ranking Goodrich and refused an offer that both sides agree was somewhat more generous than the settlement with Goodyear. The bargaining was further complicated by some issues peculiar to Goodrich. These include the company's rumored plans to shut down several antiquated plants in Akron and set up new facilities elsewhere, most probably in the South. Although face-to-face sessions and meetings with federal mediators were continuing, the outlook at week...
When Dr. Thompson went to cover the campaign full time in late 1971, he was in a peculiar position. Rolling Stone was not noted for being bound by ties with Washington, and they could leave Thompson--the best thing they'd ever had--with a completely free hand. He ran wild with it--interviewing George McGovern at a urinal, throwing objectivity out the window, junking any semblance of "off-the-record," refusing to repress an obvious bias (pro-McGovern), and drawing no line at the point where the facts ended and his imaginative insanity began. For example, he gets into...