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...Sleep. Director Howard Hawks and his writers (including William Faulkner) claimed they couldn't follow the plot of Raymond Chandler's detective novel. In any case, they turned Detective Phillip Marlowe into Humphrey Bogart yet still managed to retain large chunks of snappy Chandler dialogue. Watch this movie for mood and style, not plot, and you'll find it one of Bogart and Bacall's very best...
...ruling does not apply to international flights, which will retain their discount fares...
Looking tense and haggard, Nixon announced that all members of his staff will, after all, appear voluntarily before Ervin's committee if they are asked to do so. They will testify under oath and in public, "and they will answer fully all proper questions." He said they will, however, retain the right to refuse to answer any question that infringes on Nixon's concept of Executive privilege...
...should baseball, with its sluggish metabolism and lack of crunch, retain its hold on the national imagination? The answer lies partly in its seasonal associations. No one is immune to the vernal equinox. The same jump of the blood occurs on ghetto streets and Little League diamonds, in bleachers and in front of the TV screen. Baseball implies an earthly benignity: clear skies, vacations and, above all, no school...
Three general questions emerge. Where do we draw the lines? Who is to play what role in the very complex decision-making process? Do we instill in our physicians unrestrained trust, or must we retain some of the apprehension that ordinarily accompanies that which we revere...