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...parts were removed to immobilize the plane, just in case someone tried to repeat Eisenhauer's stunt in the other direction...
...investigators, the robbery had all the earmarks of a macabre publicity stunt, staged principally to demonstrate that the S.L.A. has tightened its grip on the millionaire's daughter. The gang did not shoot out the cameras that recorded their moves and made certain that the witnesses knew that Tania-Patty was with them. Moreover, investigators have turned up no evidence that the terrorist organization was running short of cash. Said one federal law enforcement official: "The S.L.A. feeds on publicity, and its appetite...
...word-games, and his "Freudian" slips in mis-writing dates on letters--Blotner presents all of the minute details as pedantic facts. Even the events that cry out for psychological interpretation--Faulkner's wife's suicide attempt on their honeymoon, his younger brother's death in an airplane stunt, his debilitating drinking--are spit out undigested, with the unexplored mention that they may have had psychological consequences...
...Cambridge Tenants' Organizing Committee criticized the MIT project for being exclusively for the elderly. "Housing for the elderly is just easy politics and an MIT public relations stunt," Jeff Liev of the committee said...
...Nicole Marie, 3. But visiting the Texas location of Robert Redford's new movie The Great Waldo Pepper, an aerial barnstorming epic set in the '20s, Luci did some public hell-raising. She hopped into the cockpit of a 1918 plane, donned goggles and let Stunt Pilot Frank Tallman take her out for just a ride-apparently not even a spin, a roll, a loop-trie-loop, a couple of bunts...