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...greeted members of the Washington police department and the FBI who had pulled off two spectacular fake fencing operations. In both cases they set up storefronts and posed as hoods to buy stolen goods and then arrest the thieves (see THE LAW). The first operation was known as "the Sting" and the second as G.Y.A., for "Got Ya Again." Tuesday evening Ford flew to the All-Star baseball game in Philadelphia, keenly aware that ABC's televised broadcast of the game was expected to outdraw NBC'S and CBS's convention coverage. (Indeed, ABC dominated the evening...
...South American fire ant has advanced from its initial beachhead?Mobile, Ala., in 1918?and now infests some 150 million acres in nine Southern states, injuring and sometimes killing livestock with its fiery sting and driving farm workers from the fields. Some experts believe that it will continue to press forward, adapting to cooler temperatures and inexorably moving toward both the North and the West. In forest areas, the gypsy moth, the tussock moth, the spruce budworm and the southern pine beetle are wreaking devastation on huge areas of woodland, defoliating and killing millions of valuable trees and destroying...
Movies like this are the price audiences have to pay for liking The Sting. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliott Gould) are bumptious turn-of-the-century vaudevillians with more talent for stealing the customers' wallets than for stealing the show. Offstage they drink out of the finger bowls at posh restaurants, swat each other with their hats a la Laurel and Hardy and cause everything they touch to blow up in their faces, from a bottle of champagne to a vial of nitroglycerin. "They're not oafs," someone says of them. "They would require practice to become...
Vidal's views on this country are unfortunately symptomatic of the times and snap with the sting of a rejected...
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