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...being "as safe as fish in the sea," almost one year to the day since his arrival in Algiers to take part in the abortive Generals' Revolt, the head of the murderous Secret Army Organization had been captured at last. Said one jubilant gendarme: "He fell into the trap like a beginner...
Despite press photographers' incessant efforts to trap him, most U.S. newspapers and magazines have no photo of Hughes less than a decade old. Hughes maintains offices in Houston and Hollywood, but seldom visits either. Instead he operates through a telephone-message center which is manned 24 hours a day. Anyone who wants to see Hughes must call OLdfield 4-2500 in Hollywood and state his business. If Hughes deigns to answer-which he almost never does-he is more likely than not to set an appointment for 2 a.m. on a remote street corner...
...easy way out of solving a complex problem in administration is to replace it unconsciously with a simpler problem that looks rather the same and has an automatic solution. The Administration has repeatedly fallen into this trap, reacting to difficult situations with responses unsuited to a sophisticated conception of the College...
...trapdoor opens slowly onstage; from the depths of a subterranean dungeon emerges a doddering old prisoner. He has been digging through various walls for twelve years, and now he is ready to escape. He lasts no more than four minutes onstage before he is forced to flee through the trap again. But to Offenbach fans at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, the sequence is one of the comic highpoints of the evening. The man responsible: Italian-born Tenor Alessio de Paolis (pronounced: Pow-o-lees), 64, who in a quarter-century at the Met has sung some 50 secondary roles...
There is little to do there except fish, but the fishing is almost incredible. The narrow gulf between the east coast of the peninsula and the western shore of Mexico itself is a great natural trap for billions of game fish that are swept into the area by Pacific currents. The place teems with black, blue and striped marlin, tuna, swordfish. cabrilla, barracuda, yellowtail, bonito, dolphin and roosterfish...