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...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). The Hustler (1961), featuring Paul Newman. Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott and Piper Laurie in the poolroom's sweat and smoke...
...pipe for them that pay the piper...
...Chilean pilot named Rodolfo Fuenzalida, whose normal work is to spot schools of fish. Fuenzalida had no hesitation about taking the job, even though the Chilean air force forbids its pilots to fly south of the cape for fear of violent winds. Despite the danger of overloading his Piper Apache, Fuenzalida squeezed in two extra passengers, BBC Reporter Clifford Luton and BBC Cameraman Peter Beggin...
After a torturous half-hour, Fuenzalida nosed up through the buffeting winds and started back for Punta Arenas. Over the Strait of Magellan, the oil pressure in the right engine dropped to zero, forcing Fuenzalida to turn it off. The Piper lost altitude gradually, just made the runway. Sayle headed straight for the nearest wirephoto machine in Santiago, and next morning the Times splashed its scoop on the front page along with Sayle's pictures. Wrote Sayle: "The sight of Gipsy Moth plowing bravely through the wilderness of rain and sea was well worth...
Lear's Fool. No one follows this pie-eyed piper, and he follows no one; his most faithful companion is the skeleton of a woman, the least troublesome kind of female from his point of view. In every town he knows the jails, the madhouses, the cantinas and the churches. He wears rags sewn with tiny bells, each of which tinkles a note that in his mind symbolizes the special vice of each place he has visited. He is a spiv, and his roguish capacity for survival unites him with Ulysses, Tom Jones and Huckleberry Finn. Yet Pito remains...