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...situation that cannot be turned in some way to his advantage. In 1970, for example, a helicopter-borne rescue team penetrated North Viet Nam's air defenses but found that its quarry-U.S. P.O.W.s held at the Son Tay prison camp-had been moved to parts unknown. In the Pentagon, Laird looked at the men around him, shattered by the failure of the mission, and ordered in to rush out and extol American bravery and determination. A plan that had yielded nothing somehow produced a sense of accomplishment anyway...
...ransom requests appear, brought by a previously unknown woman who identifies herself as "Giovanni's girl," the case grows more complex--as it should, but the plot, instead of thickening, becomes distressingly obtuse. Young workers approach Primo with furtive suggestions, their role as friends or captors remains unclear, not only to him but to the viewer as well The labyrinth never opens onto a clear space, and the ambiguities and doublecrosses are doubly frustrating because they are so obviously intentional. Too simplistic to captivate without a fitting denouement, the unsolved mystery fails equally much as a pure intellectual exercise...
...MSPCA claims that pets are less suited for experiments than specially bred lab animals because they have a lower survival rate. But said, adding that the unknown condition of pound animals before they are caught adversely affect statistical results...
...other cover is Frank Loesser's classic "On A Slow Boat to China," a highly unlikely song to be sung in the present age of practicality. Women are not about to let themselves be whisked off to points unknown in this heyday of equal rights, and the great romantics who might have enacted such scenes seem to have gone down with The African Queen. Ahh, well...
...first-year law student was found dead of unknown causes in his Boston apartment yesterday evening...