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...Wallach. He plays Tuco, a Mexican gunman with so many prices on his head that he cashes them in by traveling from town to town with his partner Joe (Eastwood), who turns him in for the bounty money, then springs him at the last moment by shooting the rope with which Tuco is being hanged. When Joe's aim begins to deteriorate, so does the partnership, but the two stick together long enough to set out in pursuit of $200,000 worth of stolen gold hidden in a desert cemetery. Also after the money is a thin-lipped sadist...
...prompt a predictably irascible response from press, public and Congress. "A dastardly act of piracy!" cried Massachusetts Congressman William Bates, senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. Utah's Republican Senator Wallace Bennett urged the U.S. to send "an armada steaming into Wonsan harbor, throw a tow rope around the Pueblo and get her out of there...
Still, Bucher kept his cool. After all, U.S. planes not infrequently buzz the Soviet trawlers that serve as spy ships, whooshing in at mast level and sometimes shearing off antennas. It was only when one of the Korean PT boats rigged fenders-rubber tubes and rope mats to cushion impact-and began backing toward Pueblo's bow that Bucher realized what was happening; in the bow of the PT boat stood an armed boarding party. "These guys are serious," the skipper radioed his home port, U.S. Navy headquarters in Yokosuka, Japan. "They mean business...
Evil's Banality. The clues they leave behind are minimal: a few footprints and some rope with which they tied their victims. But Hickock and Smith are pathetic examples of the banality of evil. With innumerable chances to es cape capture, they start a spree of flamboyant check bouncing and petty thievery that keep them constantly on the road, from Mexico to Las Vegas to Kansas City, where the police dragnet pulls them in. In their luggage are the two pairs of boots that wallowed through the Clutters' blood...
...constituted an almost perfect pitch for a silence-is-golden plea while he continues his effort to win the Viet Nam war with present policies." But the story didn't suit Lewis, whose sleuthing disclosed that Blondin was an imperturbable craftsman. He was a child prodigy on the rope at six. By the time he tackled Niagara at 36, he was able to go across once on stilts, another time with both feet in a sack, once again with a man on his back. On one occasion he sat down on the rope and devoured an omelet...