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This time, with The Band's lead guitar ist, Robbie Robertson, acting as producer and arranger, the setting is different...
...there is a cry from their daughter's room. Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujold) goes to investigate and is absent too long. Michael (Cliff Robertson) follows to find his life suddenly shattered-wife and child kidnaped and a note demanding a huge ransom pinned to the bed. At times he is desperate, then hopeful. The police enlist his aid in a plot to outwit the kidnapers, assuring him that official expertise is a better guarantee of his family's safety than his fortune...
After New York Times Reporter Nan Robertson got hold of Potter's manuscript and broke the story last week, Schiff denied through her lawyer, Morris Abram, that she had ever had "a romance or an affair" with Roosevelt. But Potter-a fiftyish author of a children's book and a 1973 volume on oil spills, as well as a sometime escort of SchifFs-says that her remarks came from long taped conversations he held with her over the past two years. Publisher John J. Geoghegan reports that Schiff has twice read the galieys of Potter's manuscript...
...more impersonal analyses of figures like Wilt Chamberlain and Bob Cousy. Chamberlain, he says, is the paradigmatic loser; his individual achievement was more secure on a losing team, so his true wish was fulfilled. He portrays Cousy, his childhood hero heroically entering a game in 1969 to replace Oscar Robertson--and then throwing the ball away and losing his man to blow the game for the team he should have stayed on the bench coaching...
...last 16 months Pat had watched boarding passengers walk through the X-ray machines. She liked the job, she said, because there was always something going on and interesting people to see through. Just a few weeks ago, she said, Cliff Robertson had been at Logan. When pressed for an evaluation of Robertson's sex appeal, Pat admitted that only her sister had seen him, and that she hadn't even known who Robertson was. "But a while before that, one of Ford's sons came by," Pat said. "He walked through the machine like everyone else, even though...