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...remarkably well-financed campaign organization. During the two weeks after the convention, Rolvaag formed a coalition with a Minneapolis trucking executive, Robert Short. Short -- who has owned things like the largest hotel in Minneapolis and the Los Angeles Lakers -- has been looking for years for a chance to snatch a major political office. He lingered in the shadows of the June convention as a possible compromise candidate for governor in case the Rolvaag and Keith factions became deadlocked...
BORN FREE. Kenya's scenery is spectacular, but the big cats snatch the lion's share of attention in a delightful film version of Joy Adamson's book about Elsa the lioness, whose loyalty and intelligence would do credit to any species...
...rush right down to the Coop as soon as it opens today, you may be in time to snatch up one of the last remaining copies of Human Sexual Response, one of the fastest selling medical books since the Kinsey Report...
...that he also considered Berlin to have no strategic importance. Actually, Stalin always considered the city a prime prize. Through interviews with surviving Soviet military people, Ryan provides a fresh account of how Stalin called his marshals to Moscow and craftily hatched his scheme for the massive offensive to snatch Ber lin before the Allies...
That left the question of who kidnaped Ben Barka just where it had been before: wildly up in the air. Key witnesses to the Left Bank snatch were still in hiding or not talking or dead or simply unidentifiable. Gaullist Deputy Pierre Lemarchand-a close friend of Figon and French Interior Minister Roger Frey, and himself one of the barbouzes (bearded ones) who serve as De Gaulle's super-CIA-testified before an investigating magistrate that a handful of French cops had accepted $200,000 from the Moroccans for helping kidnap Ben Barka, but insisted that neither Frey...