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...hero (Rod Taylor) who is trained to be an 007 but turns out to be an 0. Assigned by The Chief (Trevor Howard) to assassinate an enemy agent, Taylor discovers that he is just too nice a guy to do such dirty work. So he hires a thug to plug his victims, and starts chasing his favorite redhead (Jill St. John) around a pad that looks like the 9th Regiment Armory lined with orange velvet. The Bondoggle ends, however, when the redhead comes up with an angle as well as a wiggle, and from there out the show...
...first inclination on taking power last July was to drop all semblance of a strong central government, and plug for a confederation of almost independent states. Taking him at his word, Northern politicians put together a proposal that envisaged a loose league tied together only by common currency, post office and diplomatic service. But Gowon soon realized that that would have meant splitting the army-a notion that he could not countenance...
...that refusal to be frozen might be construed as suicide. They concede that their program might compel some drastic rethinking in theology, ethics and law. For instance, in law, says Ettinger, "a new kind of manslaughter will appear, namely, the failure to freeze" -that is, somebody might pull the plug on the capsule. Similarly, says Ettinger, theologians might have to revise their concepts of the nature of the soul. There is no agreement, for instance, even as to the time that the soul enters the embryo or leaves the body of the deceased...
...plug the teaching gap, Detroit has sent assistant principals and guidance counselors into 102 of its classrooms...
...planning "super-colossal" projects for 10,000-lot communities built around lakes with 30 miles of shoreline. He is also drawing up plans for what he calls "Floating Home Cities" on the California and Florida coasts-artificial, fully serviced peninsulas or keys to which boat owners can plug in. "Why live in a trailer miles from the sea when you can live on a houseboat in a Floating Home City?" Ferine asks...