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Plane spotting, like collecting train numbers and automobile license plates, is one of those eccentric pastimes that the British love. Robert Curtis, 24, and Edward Paul Mason, 23, had been members of plane-spotting clubs since they were teenagers. In late September they took leave of their jobs in London and went to Yugoslavia. There they spent six days driving about the country, stopping at a dozen airfields to jot down registrations, types and numbers of all the aircraft they...
...young hobbyists had almost completed their project when a Yugoslav civilian spotted them standing in the bushes outside a busy military airfield at Mostar, looking at the planes with binoculars. He called the police, who promptly arrested them and charged them with espionage. Curtis and Mason, police said, also had in their possession a large telescope, a shortwave radio capable of monitoring aircraft communications and a tape recorder. They also had several notebooks full of data about Yugoslavia's airfields, which were being used by Soviet planes to fly supplies to Syria and Egypt during the Middle East...
...Baxters meet two sisters, one of whom is blind and psychic. The sisters (well played by Hilary Mason and Clelia Matania) reassure the couple of the happiness of their dead daughter. But they sense danger, too. They tell Baxter that his life is in peril while he remains in Venice. He does not believe them, but he is bothered by strange presentiments, and by the persistent reappearance of a small figure in a hooded red raincoat-the garment his daughter was wearing when she drowned...
...keeping with the Thanksgiving season, the networks have begun killing their ratings turkeys. The New Perry Mason Show (CBS), with the bland Monte Markham in the old Raymond Burr role, has been sentenced to oblivion. At least two other shows face a doubtful future: Tenafly (NBC), with James McEachin as a black middle-class suburbanite who shuttles from kids and crab grass to detective assignments; and Faraday and Company (NBC), wherein Dan Dailey engagingly plays a private eye just home after 28 years in a Latin American jail on a trumped-up charge...
Policemen and lawyers alike regret that TV viewers often expect real life to live up to its TV image. "The biggest problem criminal lawyers have," says California Attorney Floyd Silliman, "is what we call the Perry Mason syndrome -jurors preconditioned by TV. According to TV, lawyers are not only supposed to get their clients acquitted, they are also supposed to ferret out the guilty parties...