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Cold Stills & Hot Springs. Geologist William Fischer, who headed the survey, soon recognized the significance of the findings: like an aerial divining rod, the infra-red scanner had spotted streams of cool, fresh rain water flowing out into the ocean. After completing the volcanic survey, the B-25 flew back and forth over Hawaii's entire coastline, eventually detecting a total of 219 shore areas that might have underground fresh-water springs. In one 5-sq.-mi. area in Hilo Bay, the scientists estimate, the discharge of fresh water amounts to 100 million gallons a day. Using the infra...
...focus of the fun is a 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...
Columbia must face Bob Greenlee, Rod Watson, and a vicious Yale line. The Dowling-less Elis still can count on fullback Calvin Hill and should coast...
...with dissociated pieces of plot: a Marx-marked high school dropout (Jean-Pierre Leaud) meets and mates a Coke-stoked rock-'n'-roll belter (Chantal Goya), but not long after dies in an absurd accident, leaving the girl to face an amateur abortion performed with a curtain rod. The puzzle is further complicated by irrelevancies: switchblade suicide, lesbian interlude, subway murder, movie within a movie within a movie that culminates in a very dirty joke...
...will see these forces converging. Charisma and promises are the glories of a new mayor. So far, Lindsay's idealism has been both his major source of energy and his biggest curse. His commissioners also have big ideas, but bigger, tradition-bound bureaucracies. Results will be the final measuring rod, and a year or two from now the mayor will need more than that sign in his office that reminds him to SMILE