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...Near dawn Monday, the doctors decided to call in outside help. One of them summoned Dr. [Victor Manuel] Montemayor [house doctor for a number of Acapulco resort hotels]. He arrived at the Hughes penthouse at 6 a.m. He spent two hours examining the emaciated billionaire and later said he was "aghast" at his condition. He was shown the blood analysis disclosing the failure of Hughes' kidneys, and his own examination showed that Hughes was drastically dehydrated, with a pulse so weak that the Mexican doctor could get no reading in several attempts to take his blood pressure...
...dawn quiet of central Germany is suddenly shattered by the thundering explosions of tens of thousands of Soviet rockets and artillery shells. Then thousands of Soviet tanks, with dozens of motorized rifle divisions behind them, crash across the frontier into West Germany. Far to the south, Warsaw Pact forces blast into Turkey and through Yugoslavia toward Italy, while the Soviet Fleet moves in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to neutralize NATO's warships...
...holdings under relatives' names, Echeverria two weeks ago ordered that 243,000 acres in Sonora's lush, irrigated Yaqui valley, worth about $80 million, be handed over to landless peasantry. The subsequent "invasion" of 8,000 farm families was smoothly run overnight by government-sponsored unions. By dawn, happy, flag-waving campesinos were haggling over boundaries...
...flashbacks end and the dawn breaks on the caper that began the film, we see the dark rings under Belmondo's eyes and face the ugly mess of burglary for the first time in broad daylight. The whole business is not such a lark after all; Belmondo doesn't feel very sexy. Not Bujold, we now understand, not Belmondo's forged inheritance, not even a socio-economic destiny can satisfy this man's soul. Only his crowbar. The overall conception may strike us as weak, but we can now account for Malle's depressed editing. So if you feel that...
...assessing program lineups. CBS eventually took him on. His first triumph was to make Saturday morning profitable for the network by replacing sitcom reruns with new cartoon series. Later, as programming chief, he gave the network such treasures as Cannon, Maude, Rhoda, Phyllis, Sonny and Cher, Tony Orlando and Dawn...