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...gathering information at the Democratic National Convention at Miami Beach, Hunt and I had an option to lease a large houseboat moored within line of sight of the Fontaineblau. This would enable it to be used as a communications center for CRYSTAL-electronic surveillance. With a lush bedroom featuring a large mirror over the big king-sized bed, the houseboat would double as headquarters for SAPPHIRE because it was from there that our prostitutes were to operate. They were not to work as hookers but as spoiled, rich, beautiful women who were only too susceptible to men who could brag...
...Through his Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Wilson in the past three decades has helped establish blindness centers in over 80 nations. These centers are designed primarily to help those of the world's 42 million blind whose sight can be restored -and to prevent the diseases that still cause most of the blindness in developing countries. Last year, while organizing the work of restoring sight to 141,000 people, he traveled 50,000 miles. That would be a grueling undertaking for anyone, but for Wilson, the difficulties were...
Third World people were a rare sight at Harvard until the activism of the 1960s forced the implementation of affirmative action programs on campuses throughout the nation. Therefore, a primary focus of Third World organizing has been first to increase the number of Third World people attending the college...
HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT Directed by James Caan Screenplay by Spencer Eastman...
...easy to think of James Caan as just another pretty face: a pleasant, inoffensive actor who is just right for light entertainments like Chapter Two. It is brave enough for him to play the leading role that of an inarticulate factory workerin Hide in Plain Sight, since it is the kind of small, sober film no agent would regard as a good career move." But this is also Caan's debut as a director. To choose this true story of a man trying to find and then recover his children, who have been abducted...