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...afoot, the experienced Hitchcock fan might reasonably expect the unreasonable-a great chase down Thomas Jefferson's forehead, as in North by Northwest, or across the rooftops of Monaco, as in To Catch a Thief. What is offered instead is merely gruesome. The trail leads to a sagging, swamp-view motel and to one of the messiest, most nau seating murders ever filmed. At close range, the camera watches every twitch, gurgle, convulsion and hemorrhage in the process by which a living human becomes a corpse...
...Beirut last week to refresh itself after eight long months on the road. On July 11, a party of 101 Americans had moved out of Cape Town in a wagon train of 41 aluminum trailers and 41 pastel-colored trucks. They had zigzagged over desert, through jungle and swamp, and it was obvious that where-ever they went, the natives-the black miners of the South, the willowy Watutsis, the squat Pygmies, the haughty Moslems of the North-had never seen anything quite like them. The adults among the travelers were all retired, and their ages, even after 22 children...
...prices as much as 40% lower than those of competing retail stores. This year, for the first time, the orders (averaging nearly 40,000 a day) will pour into a massive new steel and concrete headquarters now being taken over by the expanding firm. Built for Neckermann on a swamp on Frankfurt's outskirts, the complex covers some ten city blocks, contains one of Europe's largest buildings...
...boasting to be done, Bill will talk as loud and as long as any ring-tailed roarer that ever lived. "Born under a stump, suckled on sow bear milk and raised in jail," he proclaims. "I know every root in these parts, every huckleberry meadow, bee tree, strand of swamp grass and skunk-cabbage patch. To hunt bears, you've got to be as tough as a good old bear dog. Well, I'm tough, and I'm the best there is." He is probably right...
...Crimson rugby team picked up its first win of the season Saturday, as it pushed over four first-half tries to swamp the New York Rugby Club, 18 to 0. This was the first time in two years that the Crimson mustered enough strength to overcome New York...