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...want to surrender." The young constable in charge was not overly impressed. All the same, he bundled his unexpected guest into a Land Rover and turned him over to his superiors in Segamat. There, incredulous officials questioned the prisoner for hours on end, laid every kind of verbal trap to see if he really was the man he claimed to be. Sure enough, he was none other than Hor Lung, the leading Communist terrorist in South Malaya, and the last man the government thought would ever surrender...
...golf, fish for marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place is called "Yemaya," an Afro-Cuban voodoo word for virgin; Hedges likes the name so well that he also gave it to his 34-ft. yacht...
...first market corner in several decades occurred on Wall Street and caught short sellers in a classic trap-without stock to deliver unless they paid fantastic prices. The corner was nothing like those when Morgan and Harriman battled for the Northern Pacific, gobbling up so much stock that shorts had to bid Northern Pacific from $170 to $1,000 in one day. But it was bad enough. In a single day, the stock of E. L .Bruce Co., a small Memphis hardwood flooring manufacturer, jumped $100 a share after the American Stock Exchange ruled that short sellers had to cover...
...good reason why every company can claim perfection-arises from the fact that cigarette testing is still an inexact science. There is no uniform standard on how many cigarettes need be sampled, which automatic smoking machines to use, how strong, long or frequent the puffs should be, how to trap the hundreds of different substances lumped together as "tar." Result: each company naturally uses whatever tests serve it best...
...candle finally gets pointed in the right direction-south-and the rest of the film rattles along in an unpredictable Tin Lizzie of adventurous comedy, underscored by the slowly developing admiration of the colonel for his shy, uncannily ingenious passenger. Later, when the colonel comes swaggering into a German trap, pontifically confident that he can outwit the whole Nazi army, the picture explodes into a mock-chase climax that is sentimental, funny, and equally satisfying on both counts...