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...years for killing a policeman. At Christmastime, Moore confessed that he drove the Mustang in the 1965 robbery. He says he stole the car and gave a ride to an acquaintance named Ronnie, who told him: "Man, you picked me up just in time. I just pulled off a sting!" Moore adds that he took Ronnie to New Jersey and never saw him again. He claims he is confessing because "Blyden is a beautiful brother and I want to help him. I have nothing to gain except more time." Blyden's lawyer is skeptical of Moore's reconstruction...
...terrorists still have some sting. Last week a Protestant bus driver who was scheduled to testify at a trial of three gunmen was shot dead at his own front door. A British soldier was also killed by a mine on border patrol. His death was the 214th since British troops arrived in Ulster in 1969 to try to keep the peace between Ulster's quarreling Protestants and Catholics. The continuation of terror makes it less and less likely that Faulkner's Stormont government can ever find a political solution for Northern Ireland...
...brutality of nameless authority and unceasing Arctic frost define Ivan's world. Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman's cameraman, has filled Siberia with beautiful winter horizons of shining white snow, deep blue sky, and soft yellow prison search lights. The harshness of the sub-zero temperatures seem more like the sting in the air of a winter carnival. The beautiful landscapes are totally inappropriate. Wrede's depiction of the guards may be more accurate, but everything is so beautiful one can hardly be bothered to notice them...
...easy victory, which lifted the harriers' season record to 5-1, took some of the sting out of last week's drubbing at the hands of Penn. But the big news is still injuries, and McCurdy doesn't think that the situation will be much better in the near future...
...Americans' hypochondria, overcrowded waiting rooms, and the inadequacies of health insurance ("At today's prices, the only one who can afford to be sick is Howard Hughes"). The program's interlocutor, Gene Kelly, did not dance, and his material did not sing. Most of the sting in the first two weeks came from sassy Teresa Graves (formerly of Laugh-In) and the blue-collar couple, Warren Berlinger and Pat Finley. The elderly Burt Mustin and Queenie Smith were wry and especially welcome, considering that old people have heretofore been virtually anathema to television...