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They finally got me... John Adamson, find him"−had resulted in the arrest of Adamson. More significantly, they had ensured the first major statewide investigation of the corruption that has enriched home-grown and imported conmen, including Mafiosi, while bilking land buyers of more than $500 million since the mid-1960s...
...crime. His exposes made big journalistic splashes, but resulted in few indictments and even fewer attempts to curb organized crime. At length Bolles wearied of what he came to regard as windmill tilting and asked to be taken off the crime beat. But he could not stay away. When Adamson, a disreputable greyhound breeder and former tow truck operator, telephoned him three weeks ago with information purporting to link top Arizona Republicans to land fraud schemes, Bolles rushed off to meet him at a Phoenix hotel. While he waited, someone apparently placed the explosive charge in his car, parked...
...family years before, and make restitution. If Blanche can use her spiritual powers to track down the heir, there is a pretty piece of change in it for her As Blanche and Lumley pursue the loot they discover that the Rainbird heir is a prosperous young jeweler named Adamson (William Devane), who combines his passion for gems with a taste for kidnaping. Ransom for his victims is demanded-and delivered-in the form of precious stones. The profit margin is high, and Adamson's personal life flourishes too: criminality sharpens his carnal appetites, which are centered mostly around Fran...
Hitchcock connects the lines of this rather unwieldy parallelogram with cursory concern for symmetry and suspense. As Blanche and Lumley draw closer to Adamson and Fran, the latter two assume they are being followed for purposes of blackmail, and plot accordingly. This leads to two scenes of automotive terror-Blanche and Lumley trapped in a car hurtling out of control on a winding mountain road, then trying to outrun a pursuing sedan on foot-that are among the clumsiest sequences Hitchcock has ever put together...
...POPULATION explosion, as Peter Adamson once wrote, has hit us "not because we have suddenly started multiplying like rabbits; it's just that we have stopped dying like flies." For most of man's history, early winters, droughts, epidemics and wolves stabilized his population. As Brown notes, but for our high fertility rates our species might have died off. We have lowered our death rates so successfully that our well-being now depends upon lowering birth rates. The world's population is slightly under four billion today; moderate U.N. projections suggest that unless fertility patterns change drastically it will break...