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...folk heroes, mythic celebrity as the ultimate reward of the criminal life) and its images (bloody faces pressed against car wind shields, lovers in a field shaded by a cloud passing briefly across the sun). But Bonnie and Clyde's humor, excitement and sense of fatefulness are woefully absent. Milius, who also wrote the script, creates no real characters, only targets. He has two surpassing leading actors: Warren Gates as Dillinger and Ben Johnson as the G-man who finally does him in. His most singular accomplishment is that he manages to make them both look...
...distance between the President and the press has been more than geographical. "Nine years ago," Fischer recalls, "there was a feeling of intimacy and participation and mutual trust between White House officials and reporters that is absent now. In those days, we all gathered around Press Secretary George Reedy's cluttered desk and jostled for space in his cramped office. Now, we assemble in a large, well-appointed briefing room in the West Wing, where either Ron Ziegler or Gerald Warren - often as much as an hour behind schedule - mounts a platform, stands behind a lectern, makes the daily...
...someone reading this article will live there this fall), and that lasted until 1895 when 1304 Massachusetts Ave. became home for Crimson editors. After the cramped quarters in Stoughton, the three floors on Mass Ave. must have seemed like a palace, and it gave The Crimson a permanency somehow absent in the early days...
Across the room, Lieut. Colonel Richard Dennis was screaming into the telephone. "Goddam!" he fumed as he chewed on a cigar. "This is war! What's the matter?" The "matter" concerned an absent telegrapher in Yuma who had casually "gone to chow," thus preventing Dennis from launching any air strikes. "Doesn't anybody over there take this thing seriously?" he shouted into the field telephone...
When St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., held its commencement exercises three months ago, the girl voted most popular by her fellow students was noticeably absent. She was off on a European tour trying to live up to another title bestowed by her schoolmates: most likely to succeed. As it happened, Christine Marie Evert, 18, class of '73, honor student and yearbook sports editor, was destined for some graduate work in the School of Hard Knocks, Big-Time Tennis Department...