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...explained his rules for moviemaking: "When the scene is exciting, put the camera in cement. When the scene is dull, spin the camera around like a whip." Brooks would not let anyone take him seriously in any of the poses the situation demanded he assume...
...their guns. All were police. The fusillade lasted a full five minutes. A dentist unwittingly drove down the street and was fatally struck by two bullets. A policewoman who had been "necking" in the Chevrolet was mortally wounded. Police bullets killed both of them, for before Marighella could whip his gun out of his briefcase, he was riddled with five slugs. Two days later, Marighella was buried in pauper's grave No. 1106 in Sāo Paulo's Vila Formosa cemetery...
...knows where it will all end. In Southern California, four-year-old Derek Bland gives expert demonstrations on his 50-cc. Honda. Wearing his silver crash helmet and silver boots, he takes off down his driveway at 12 m.p.h., leans, sticks out a foot expertly to whip his bike around and roars back to his starting point. "I'm too good at this," he says. "You should see me go over a jump. I can do wheelies too." Derek started out on a mini-minibike called the Indian, but quickly became bored. For one thing, it could...
...William Fulbright, talking while no one listens. With other prickly Democratic Sena'e oligarchs, Fulbright has been toppled by a Republican capture of the Senate. In a far recess of the Senate chamber, a vestigial cluster of radic-libs cowers as a troglodytic terrorizer in tailored twill cracks a whip over their heads. At last the President slips into the sleep of serenity and contentment...
...make a sufficiently marked ?and sufficiently swift?ideological about-face. Democrats, too, will be expected to extend their current scramble for the center to a point somewhat farther to the right. A possible development: a repeat of the 1969 liberal v. conservative fight for the post of Democratic whip. Ted Kennedy, who defeated Russell Long, could easily be toppled by conservative Robert Byrd...