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Professional Complaint. In Manhattan, questioning Burglary Suspect Margaro Alvarez, detectives asked him his occupation, got a candid answer: "I steal. I don't get much, but it's a living...
...Live at Peace. Once when the freighter tied up at a wharf at one port, young Christopher managed to steal a look out of the fetid hold. The ship was in a British harbor, but no Britons were permitted aboard to see the human cargo she was carrying. In the face of the Communist guards, the Greek prisoners kept quiet. Soon afterward the freighter tied up at a Polish port, and the human cattle were transferred from its hold to sealed railway boxcars. Dragged, pushed and prodded from town to town over many months, the Moschou family were finally settled...
...Fine Line. In Dallas, charged with rifling the safe of the Farmers' Meat Market, Reggie Stewart explained to detectives why he had carefully padlocked the front door before leaving: "I didn't want some thief to come along and steal all the man's meat...
...present. In several paintings and drawings all called The Nightmare-whose principal characters are variously a monstrous dwarf, a leering horse and a recumbent maiden-Fuseli seems as modern as Dali or Freud. Despite his inescapable similarity to his great friend ("Blake," he once said, "is damned good to steal from"), Fuseli speaks to the U.S. audience in his own peculiar and terrifying...
...Greeks sponge on the Conch sponging grounds. The Conchs steal the Greeks' catch. The Paris of the piece (Robert Wagner) then runs away with its Helen (Terry Moore), the daughter of the Big Conch himself. Together they go out to the diver-dreaded twelve-mile reef. The underwater photography here is pleasant, but hardly striking. However, the climactic fight with an octopus is staged well enough, and everything comes epically to an end with a line not even Homer could have written. Says Paris, by way of offering peace to Helen's father...