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...first car they grab is stopped for breaking the speed laws-too slow. The next belongs to the officer who made the collar-an earnest highway patrolman named Slide (Michael Sacks), whose lectures on police procedures, vehicular maintenance and the prevention of marital discord make him first a hostage, then an accomplice. Captain Tanner (Ben Johnson), the cop who organizes the comical pursuit of the miscreants, must ride herd on his trigger-happy associates. He must also keep the inevitable crowds of reporters and television crewmen from turning events into a media circus. In neither endeavor is he entirely successful...
...suffer a sort of weightlessness, a lack of humanness, which is what Sean Connery as 007 lent previous Bond adventures. The raunchy adolescent humor that helped audiences giggle past the ugly inhuman stuff in previous Bond films like Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever is rare and surprisingly inept. The vehicular chases that have proved commercially successful in other films are here rendered five times, which is four more than any movie needs. Setting aside an allright speedboat spectacular over land and water, the film is both perfunctory and predictable-leaving the mind free to wander into the question...
With the elimination of vehicular traffic, Buildings and Grounds will need a transfer point outside the Yard from which it would make deliveries. Rouillard said that consideration is being given to a Science Center location...
...concern with the preserving the beauty of the Yard apparently also motivated another proposed plan, now under study by the Planning Office, that would ban all vehicular traffic from the Yard, and use electric carts instead. The carts would be "an efficient and pleasant way of performing the present functions of cars and trucks," Bok said...
...northwest corner of the library will extend several feet into the present road running between Widener and Houghton libraries. Bok said that the road will be slightly narrowed, but that this will not impede traffic because "we're planning to keep all vehicular traffic out of the Yard and use electric carts instead...