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...happening and to find out if this falsification of classified documents is legal and proper." Hughes suspected not, and had a copy of the letter hand-carried to Air Force Chief of Staff General John Ryan on March 8. Within 24 hours Ryan had the Air Force's inspector general, Lieut. General Louis L. Wilson Jr., on a plane to Saigon...
...planes in violation of the war's Rules of Engagement. The bombings had been reported as protective reaction strikes when, in fact, there had been no enemy firings, and Lavelle was choosing his own targets. There may well have been many more than the 147 the inspector general identified: during the four months in question, Lavelle's planes reported 1,300 protective reaction strikes...
Frenzy is the first film that Hitchcock has shot in England for more than 20 years. Like a prodigal at home again, he lets his camera roam lovingly across London-Tower Bridge to Covent Garden, Hyde Park to Scotland Yard, where Chief Inspector Oxford (Alec McCowen) is trying to solve the unsavory murders of a dozen London women who have been strangled with a silk...
...actors are all proficient; Foster's flamboyant Bob, picking his teeth with that tie pin, is particularly telling. There are also Hitchcock's usual moments of high comedy, here involving Inspector Oxford and his wife, who is taking a course in gourmet cookery and assaults her husband's stubbornly English palate with a selection of highly sauced dishes. It is an old joke that would have worn pretty thin but for the performances of Alec McCowen and Vivien Merchant, the most elegant comic acting seen in movies in a long while. " ·Jay Cocks...
Blooper Snoopers. To quiet the growing clamor of consumer complaints, retailers are hiring more and more people to examine incoming merchandise. Kay Campbell's used to have salesclerks send back defective clothes once a season; now a full-time inspector examines each garment as it is received. Joseph Magnin has taken on four quality controllers in California and one on New York's Seventh Ave., where most women's wear originates. In the past year, the company has dropped ten suppliers that had repeatedly shipped faulty goods...