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...jail to contemplate the wreckage of his life. Then at the end of last week, all in a few hours' time, he was the center of frantic activity. A federal grand jury in Los Angeles formally charged the automobile tycoon (and two alleged accomplices) with conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine. De Lorean's bail was doubled, to $10 million. But then, for the prisoner, some good news at last: Assistant U.S. Attorney James Walsh agreed to accept as bail $250,000 cash and title to De Lorean's $5 million estate in California, another...
Similar referenda are on the ballot in eight other states and the District of Columbia. They pit those who say a "freeze" would hurt the United States' deterrence capabilities versus those who believe the arms race is too dangerous and that both nations already possess more than enough weaponry to ensure national security. Of the five questions on the ballot, this the most likely to pass--polls show support at greater than 60 percent...
Remembrance of Some Things past: Few argue that Marcel Proust didn't possess a remarkable memory. But even the recent three-volume edition of Provst's work remains unwieldy. You can't carry a boxed set on the subway...
...land extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, one of the great engineering achievements of all time and a boon to the seagoing nations of the world. Within the Canal Zone, our country was granted in perpetuity "all the rights, power and authority. . . which the U.S. would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory...
Making a shambles of the Stork Club or hanging over the side of a building from a fire hose, O'Toole chews up the scenery with the gusto and relish that only British actors seem to possess. Of course, precious few crumbs are left for the rest of the cast to nibble on. They manage as best they can, but they simply don't triumph over the material. It's hard to pass judgement on Mark Linn-Baker; the timorous quality of his nice-Jewish-boy persona seems to have been written into the script, and there's little that...