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Courage. Airborne, the trio brandished their weapons and ordered the pilot to make a refueling stop at Jackson, Miss., then head for Detroit. Since embarrassment helps keep people in line, the three also forced the male passengers to strip to their underwear. The hijackers soon broadcast their ambitious demand: $10 million in cash. Southern Airways placed $500,000 aboard an aircraft and dispatched it to Detroit in hopes of a settlement. Despite the efforts of Detroit officials to talk the hijackers into landing, they made the pilot shoot across Lake Erie to Cleveland's Hopkins Airport. Meanwhile, the passengers...
...industrial town of Truro, N.S. He studied political science and economics at Dalhousie University in Halifax and in 1939 graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an associate editor of the prestigious Law Review. A wealthy man, he inherited a fortune from his family's underwear-manufacturing business. Though he is no longer personally associated with the firm, political cartoonists continue to sketch him in long Johns. After practicing law and spending eight years as Nova Scotia's opposition leader, Stanfield served as the province's Premier for 11 years...
...taboo in the arts, sex is an acceptable theme. The National Theater's current production of Bizet's Carmen must certainly rank as one of the most erotic of versions. In one scene of the opera, Carmen does a striptease, then lolls on a bed in her underwear, grabbing at Don José. Later the couple fall into bed and, through some miraculous exercise of lung power, manage to sing their love duet while they are passionately embracing...
Paul's "sensitivity" is displayed in the pair's first writing session. Paul, the child-man who takes such pride in his "stylograph deluxe" and long underwear, spins out a story about the girl without knowing anything about her. Pierre rebuffs him for being fanciful. But soon after, the audience gasps and laughs with the typical existential "shock of recognition" when an interview with the uncle coincides in every way with Paul's fantasy...
...solemn salute. Later, at home, his manservant Tucker (Arthur Lowe) offers the earl (Harry Andrews) his evening whisky and a selection of nooses on a silver salver. "May I suggest the silk, sir?" Tucker says respectfully. The earl accepts, and begins his evening ritual, first stripping to his long underwear, then donning a regimental uniform jacket and a white ballet skirt, and finally stringing himself up for a harmless little swing. The earl, however, mucks up on this particular occasion, and Tucker discovers him dangling from the proper silk rope, neck twisted like a child...