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...make a joint visit a fortnight ago. The sisters' cars had been confiscated; gratefully they accepted a stranger's offer to ride to the prison in his Jeep. On the way back, for reasons unexplained, the Jeep driver left the main highway for an unnecessary-and fatal-jounce along a desolate, cliff-edged road...
...that put France Nuyen out of Suzie Wong cost the insurance companies nearly half a million-when Audrey Hepburn fell from a horse in Mexico early last year, breaking her back and delaying The Unforgiven for six weeks, Fireman's Fund paid $250,000; Kay Kendall's fatal illness necessitated a $106,000 payoff to the producers of Once More, With Feeling...
...movement of Opus 110; Mr. Fischer's touch was alternately feather-light and hammer-heavy, in the right places. Things went down-hill from there on in, however. The slow movement lacked nuances of expression, and the final fugue was marred by a memory lapse, which, though not a fatal flaw in itself, may have caused the pianist's failure to inject the called-for nuovovivente. Still, the tight-knit cluster of highly emotional notes which closes the Sonata was very impressive...
...were drawn together by their mutual bookishness and preoccupation with politics; Kennedy's near-fatal illness in 1955 sealed their bond. Sorensen compiled the research for Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage, while Jack was convalescing in Florida, was wrongly credited by Drew Pearson with ghosting the book-a charge that was disproved by Sorensen's notes, Kennedy's handwritten drafts, and the assistance of Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford. Pearson later retracted his charges. Sorensen helped Kennedy plot his unsuccessful try for the vice-presidential nomination in 1956. Only weeks later they embarked on the long...
Evasion & Frustration. The board came into being when 13 Teamster insurgents, charging that Hoffa's election had been rigged, sued in 1957 to prevent him from taking over the presidency. Hoffa made a deal that most Hoffa haters thought was a fatal blunder: if he could move in as "provisional" president, he would permit a board of monitors to oversee Teamster affairs. The resulting consent decree called for the board to consist of one insurgent-appointed monitor, one Teamster-appointed monitor, and a chairman to be named by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts. Ever since, Jimmy Hoffa...