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That seedier side is the subject of Skip Tracer, a new Canadian film from the nether reaches of British Columbia. A skip tracer is a fellow who tracks down anyone who has skipped out on a debt. He's the smiling guy in the three-piece suit nailing a For Sale sign on your house, repossessing your car, walking out with all your living room furniture. It's all legal--after all these things are no longer yours--but it's a nasty business, and the people who do it for a living are nastier still--picture...
...used to be that when thieves broke in to steal from a famous man's tomb, they made off with the gold and jewelry. Nowadays they skip all that and rifle the corpse's pockets for letters, laundry slips, and just about anything else that will help sell the poor man's story to the movies, TV and even Broadway. Biographies, long the mainstay of the reading public, have become the hottest items in show business. Hardly has a celebrity finished his life-and often only half his life-than some producer is looking for writers...
...black leader who has done just that is Alfred ("Skip") Robinson. A 42-year-old former building contractor, Robinson last February organized a series of demonstrations protesting alleged police brutality in Tupelo, Miss. He also organized a black boycott of the city's main stores, demanding that they and the city government hire more blacks...
...Skip Roberts, the Guyanese assistant commissioner of crime, told Neff that the first troopers arriving in Jonestown had found Jones' house ransacked and a large safe standing both open and empty. Two of the victims in the house had been shot: one of Jones' bodyguards and Jones' mistress, Annie Moore. Most of the eight men suspected of having taken part in the airport ambush also lay dead of poisoning in the house...
...Hops, skip, and a boot: There's really not much to say. Reports have been published that rank the town of Hanover as the third largest consumer of Anheuser-Busch products in the country. I believe the top two are the Vicksburg, Miss., Chamber of Commerce and Joe Cocker...