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...materializes after a misbegotten seance recalls her from the dead to hex her slightly unnerved husband (Edward Woodward) and badly annoyed second wife (Louise Troy). The zany medium, Madame Arcati (Bea) leaves the trio to make the worst of things and the best of fun out of their unearthly fix...
...last week in Rio's Correio de Manhā, would have been unthinkable a few months ago. For all their recurrent economic and political crises, the Brazilians are traditionally a gentle, urbane people who believe that any problem on earth can be solved by jeito, the artful fix...
...their pleas to nolo contendere (no contest) on eight counts. After Federal Judge Matthew M. McGuire made sure that each defendant understood that the new plea was "tantamount to a plea of guilty," the Justice Department dropped the four remaining counts. It is now up to Judge McGuire to fix the sentences. For the companies, fines could total up to $80,000; the individuals face both fines and prison...
...said that it is very difficult to fix the responsibility for these errors. There is no reason to suppose that holding the trial in Dallas affected the verdict. But in his opinion, both Judge Joe B. Brown, who tried the case, and Melvin M. Belli, Ruby's chief counsel, "conducted themselves badly...
...scattering of sportswriters took defeat hard enough to hint "fix," but the rest took their medicine. And bitter it was. "Hypocrites!" yelled Cassius Clay at the press conference. "Whatcha gonna say now, huh? Huh? Who's the greatest?" "Cassius," came the faint reply-too faint to satisfy the new champ. "Let's really hear it!" he hollered. "Who's the greatest? I'll give you one more chance: Who's the greatest?" The chant was loud and clear. "You, Cassius, you. You're the greatest...