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...crisis develops as, one by one, the members of this sick little clan discharge their tensions into a fragile lightning rod, a sensitive young tutor (Maximilian Schell), who longs almost pathetically to please his "new family." In return, the man of the house ignores him brutally, the son despises him vocally, the mother starts shamelessly breathing down his neck. In the end, they drive him to attempt suicide, and in his glassy eyes they see the death they have been living...
...cell blocks. A variant was the Pulpo (Octopus), a many-armed electrical device attached by means of small screws inserted into the skull. Trujillo's men also employed a rubber "collar" that could be tightened enough to sever a man's head, an 18-in. electrified rod ("the Cane") for shocking the genitals, nail extractors, leather-thonged whips, small rubber hammers, scissors for castration...
...from coast to coast. Treyz's first great masterpiece of programming, however, came with 77 Sunset Strip-the series that gave Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes and his pomade-raking pocket comb to the world. Millions of acned teen-agers fell for Kookie's hackneyed charms, and the hot-rod set became ABC's own. The next Treyz triumph was The Untouchables, which set a new vogue for group slaughter, made Eliot Ness a household name among the postwar young marrieds. The cult of the lowest common denominator had found its high priest in Ollie Treyz, and with...
...President must never be the leader of a parliamentary majority." - Also in the cards is a Cabinet shuffle. Major anticipated casualty is waspish little Premier Michel Debre. Cool to NATO and (until called upon to implement De Gaulle's policy) against Algerian independence. Debre has been the lightning rod of the Gaullist regime, attracting resentment that might otherwise have been showered on De Gaulle. Into the Foreign Ministry replacing Maurice Couve de Murville will probably go Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe, now De Gaulle's most trusted adviser. It is on foreign policy that De Gaulle will concentrate...
...Television sets are about the only exception, because they are necessary for government propaganda and to provide badly needed entertainment amid all the austerity. In the campaign against smugglers, twelve so far have been sentenced to death. When told by harbor police that the smugglers' hot-rod launches can outrun government boats. General Park offered advice: "When it is clear that the smuggler will outrun you, open fire and sink him. If they are caught, smugglers are going to be executed anyway. It doesn't make any difference if they are drowned at sea or shot on land...