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...sawed-off submachine gun, shot one of the officers in the chest and wounded the other in the arm. Commandeering an Opel at gunpoint from a passing motorist, he and his companion sped off in the direction of the highway to Stuttgart. As three carloads of Singen police gave chase, the pair took a wrong turn that brought them to a dead-end barrier near a brook. In the ensuing battle, a policeman grabbed the fleeing man's submachine gun and wounded the woman in the leg. The man was shot in the head. Ballistic tests later showed that...
before deciding my lengthy battle with athlete's foot and root rot left my sole too scarred for a frisky chase through the thorny maze of iamb, anapest and trochee...
...Tail Gunner" McCarthy nicknamed Harvard the "Kremlin on the Charles," but once all the midwestern farmboys arrive in Cambridge, they soon find out Harvard will train them for the Chase Manhattan Bank and not a revolutionary cadre. It is only natural that Harvard's faculty mirrors this bias. The radical graduate students and assistant professors soon leave for greener, tenured pastures--just take a look at the Cambridge refugees at the U Mass Economics Department...
Another incentive for Chase's departure from SN may have been his growing celebrity. In a show that insisted on being a collaboration of equals, Chevy was singled out fast. The other Not Ready For Prime Timers got sick of being asked questions like, "Hey, you're on 'Chevy Chase,' right?" Jokes Comedienne Gilda Radner: "It even reached a point where my own mother would ask me what Chevy had for dinner, not what I had. Then when he got really famous, she began to doubt that I really knew...
These days, relations are fine between Chevy and his old SN gang. The show's audience has actually grown since Chase's leavetaking. What's more, Chevy's controversial fame may prove to be a burden. "You're always on," he sighs, explaining why he now avoids Hollywood parties. "You keep saying, 'Thank you very much,' when maybe you just want to sit down and look at your sunglasses." Paul Wolmuth