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...annals of crime, and Van Heflin is solid as the vengeful detective who turns out to have heart. But Thiefs best value is in the minor roles: John Davis Chandler, an ash-blond menace with a voice like a stripped gear, who seems to have difficulty getting his plum-size eyes open; Zekial Marko (who also wrote both the book and screenplay) an engaging loser who would obviously do anything to anybody; Tammy Locke a fearsome moppet, capable of a look of existential bafflement when her father won't let her dry the dishes-and of cheerful chuckles when...
...festive rights following the official ceremonies became so excessive that the Board of Overseers made frequent but always unsuccessful attempts to curb Commencement behavior, even to the extent of banning "plum cake," which the Overseers observed, was never served in European universities...
...million-a-year tourist trade. The cost of living, up 19% last year, spiraled another 9% in 1965's first quarter. The hardest hit was food, which has risen an average 30% in the past year; such items as beef, pork, apples, potatoes and top-quality slivovitz (plum brandy) have jumped between 50% and 100%. Prices have also risen for everything from haircuts to shirts. Though wages have risen by one-third (to an average $53 monthly), many people have to moonlight to make ends meet. The latest tale wagging around Belgrade's coffeehouses has a teacher asking...
...Plum for Boeing. United Air Lines, the largest U.S. line, announced the biggest individual order in air transport history: $750 million worth of jet planes and spare parts. Most of the 144-plane plum went to Seattle's Boeing Co., which thus not only reinforced its position as the world's largest maker of commercial planes (recently wrested from Los Angeles' Douglas Aircraft), but also gained dramatically in its race to catch up with Douglas and British Aircraft Corp. in sales of short-range jets. United will acquire 130 Boeing planes in all: 70 twin-jet short...
...bald eagles and 200 crows spotted in Topsfield; whistling swans still found in Westport; the rusty blackbird nesting in Lincoln; the purple sandpipers piping sand to Plum Island; a partridge in a pear tree seen in Bethlehem...