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...hard-talking, hard-hitting idealism taking on the odds and somehow pulling through. It was going to be another Key Largo, the 1948 John Huston picture that pitted Humphrey Bogart against Edward G. Robinson, struggling with wits and pistols in the claustrophobic setting of a hurricance-cursed Florida Keys resort hotel, with life, death and Lauren Bacall all on the line...
...perform drew representatives from 20 local companies. Some firms are looking overseas for aid. Last October Grumman, the Long Island, N.Y., aerospace company, hired 28 engineers from Britain for six months to help design U.S. military aircraft. Says Miriam Reid, a Grumman spokeswoman: "We did it as a last resort. There's always been a shortage of engineers, but it is becoming more acute...
...showbizology). Last week some 400 students turned up at the Yale Law School auditorium to hear the Chairman of the Board deliver that class-by-himself course. Asked to speak on personal achievement, Sinatra responded characteristically to protesters critical of his appearance at South Africa's Sun City resort five years ago: "I'll go anywhere I want to go, anytime I want to go." Other pointers on life: "Keep working at it until it never fails you." And "I believed everything I was doing was right...
...bearded and bejeaned character sipping a drink at a bar in the coastal resort area of Goa looked like just another tourist. So too did the man who greeted him cheerily, "Hello, Charles. How are you?" The drinker reached for his revolver, and his interlocutor fell upon him and announced his arrest. Thus did Inspector Madhukar Zende, an ace Bombay detective, seize Charles Sobhraj, the international criminal who three weeks earlier had escaped from New Delhi's maximum-security Tihar Central Jail by slipping his guards drugged candies during a mock birthday party...
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger said Reagan had ordered the strike reluctantly and as "a last resort" because European allies would not join in an economic boycott. He said Reagan probably would urge a boycott once again before ordering military action if additional terrorists acts are tied to Khadafy...