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...delaying the trip--one of them actually turned around in the middle of New Jersey and drove back to New York because, he said, he was working over-time. A girl from lower Manhattan told me that when she learned her bus had been cancelled, she called up railroad information and explained her plight; the operator told her to spend the week-end in New York where she belonged...
...more oil dumps and rickety railroad bridges were undoubtedly added to the bombing lists Saturday. But if the brass hats took time to look outside, they would have seen their charges--National Guardsmen, paratroopers, and MPs, aided by Federal policemen--flail about with billy clubs at unarmed citizens who crossed an imaginary line...
...biggest caper of them all. "Money breeds money," theorizes one. Replies his colleague: "Mine must be on the Pill." Audaciously, they work out their gentlemanly battle plans, forsaking guns-it's hard-cheese for the armed robber who gets caught-recruiting specialists in such arcane subjects as railroad engineering and advanced electronics. After the loot is lifted, the film collapses into a text-bookish story of police procedure, as Scotland Yard tries to run the thieves to earth...
...Tabriz, where Marco Polo was entertained by the mongol Khans; in Isfahan, whose fragrant splendors led the Arabs to call it "One Half of the World." The night sky flares bright in the oilfields of Abadan, where the Zoroastrians built fire temples over ducts of natural gas. A railroad is stretching out across the treacherous Dasht-i-Kavir Desert, once traversed only by spice caravans from the Orient. A giant dam now irrigates the rolling grainlands below Shush, the ancient capital of the Elamites, where Daniel had his second vision...
...pamphlets and food packages to the crowds. While there seems plenty of fruit in Canton, meat and vegetables are scarce, despite the richness of the surrounding country, indicating a breakdown in China's system of food distribution. Outside the city, troops with fixed bayonets guard every bridge and railroad switching point...