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...must have. Torn between the genteel sobriety of California suburbia and literary fame as a New York author, Kerouac compromised and died an alcoholic wimp in Florida. We last see him warming in the sun, a camp blanket tossed across his kness as if he were a suburban Ezra Pound who had anticipated his usefulness or outlived his youthfulness and was only good for gardening, pushing down daisies...
...have visited Miami Beach on daily flights by year's end, adding some $100 million to the economy of that fabled strip. They are lured to the U.S. by reasonable hotel rates and charter packages and Freddie Laker's Skytrain jet service. Inflation back home and the pound sterling's strong exchange rate against the dollar make Miami a splendid buy. According to the U.S. Travel Service, 1.25 million British tourists will visit the U.S. this year, a 25% increase over 1979. It is the first time since World War II that their numbers will about equal...
...Carter has settled on a more aggressive strategy. The President's aides will keep reminding voters this summer about the Californian's more outrageous statements, like his proposal that the U.S. blockade Cuba in retaliation against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Then, come fall, Carter himself will pound away at Reagan as a dangerous extremist...
...world's most honored criminologists, Sheldon Glueck, Pound Professor of Law Emeritus, died in mid-March. Glueck spent his entire 38-year teaching career at Harvard until his retirement...
...Thompson traces Laszlo's progress from crusading counselor to wild-eyed revolutionary. Through Laszlo, Linson and Kaye make their feeble attempt at social commentary. He rages and sputters at the judge who sentences his teenage defendant Billy (Jon Matthews '83) to five years in prison for possession of a pound of marijuana. This first courtroom scene sets the tone of Laszlo's character for the rest of the film. He's passionate and irrational, but that...