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Little of the loot was insured, and much of it appeared difficult to trace. At week's end police were still trying to learn how much had been taken. Some of the wealthy victims were not in Marbella last week; others preferred to wait to talk to the police until after the mob of Spanish journalists who had swarmed to the resort had disappeared. In addition, some of the money that had been taken might have been what the Spanish refer to as "black money," undeclared income that its owners would just as soon not mention to the authorities...
...annals of American film will be enriched this summer by another major motion picture set on the Harvard campus. Orion Pictures film crews filmed the campus during freshman week for the upcoming movie Class, starring Jacqueline Bisset. The interior scenes of the movie, which will trace the lives of two Harvard-bound men, were filmed at Northwestern University...
...trying to stick together for 48 Hrs. are a tough white cop with the soul of a beer barrel (Nick Nolte) and a jivey black con with the spirit of a peacock (Eddie Murphy of Saturday Night Live.) The former springs the latter from prison believing he can help trace a psychopathic former associate who has become a cop killer. There ensues a long, often well-staged but improbable chase through San Francisco. The sequence is enlivened by some reasonably well-written dialogue, as if Director Hill had revived The Odd Couple and told Felix and Oscar to go ahead...
...Reagan's sense of conservative mission, his ego appears oddly detached from his office: his career as a movie actor and Governor of California gave him enough of a sense of accomplishment that he did not need the presidency to consider himself a success. Accordingly, he shows no trace of the driven behavior that manifested itself in Richard Nixon's dark humors, Lyndon Johnson's frequent tirades and Jimmy Carter's agonizing self-doubt. Reagan feels no need to brood alone over decisions. Says Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver: "I think it is interesting that he does not have...
...sedentary lives. Today, with the aid of microcomputers, systems as ingenious as Rob's are getting easier and cheaper to build. "The past few years have witnessed a tremendous increase in individuals and small groups that develop special aids for disabled persons," says Gregg Vanderheiden, director of the Trace Center for the Severely Communicatively Handicapped at the University of Wisconsin. "Microcomputers are making it possible for designers to develop sophisticated electronic aids...