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...Hollywood scriptwriters ever imagined. In a role that a lesser actor might easily saunter through, Brando handicaps himself with a fiercely concentrated acting style more suitable for great occasions. He seems determined to play not just a man but a whole concept of humanity, and Saxon's brazen theft of the hoss soon looms as a cause equal in significance to the Magna Carta or the Declaration of Human Rights. Though Saxon ropes Brando, drags him through a stream, and presses his forearm onto a scorpion during an Indian wrestling match, Brando survives to get away with the girl...
...force won a justifiable reputation as a highly efficient, untouchable operation that kept Los Angeles tree of Mafia-style crime. Still, Los Angeles' proximity to Mexico helps give it the biggest narcotics problem after New York, and its plethora of autos produces the highest incidence of auto theft and auto stripping of any U.S. city. It is a tribute to the efficiency of the police, whose numbers have remained steady for ten years while the population has nearly doubled, that they have been able to keep up with the rising crime rate. It is, in fact, this very efficiency...
Sociologists are further disturbed by the FBI's "index crimes" - murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft, which are usually lumped together in determining whether U.S. crime is rising. The index is misleading, charges Professor Robison, because "less serious crimes account for approximately 85% of the total arrests." Critics of the statistics also question FBI indications that murder is rampant in the streets. In the fine print, the 1964 FBI report itself noted that 80% of U.S. murders are committed indoors by the victim's friends or relatives...
Tent Peg to Tent Peg. The result is citified chaos. Campsites are packed tent peg to tent peg, and latecomers drive around for hours to find a spot. On weekends, raucous teen-agers contribute heavily to a delinquency rate -mostly underage drinking and petty theft-that would do discredit to a city of 25,000. Bumper-to-bumper traffic jams constantly bring back unloving memories of the freeways. At night, a soupy pall of smoke curls from thousands of campfires in the tent city. Cracks Camper Mike Hemel, who fled the smog and traffic of Los Angeles for Yosemite...
...start of Malraux's fervent anticolonialism. Indeed, he did return to Indochina to start an independence movement, beginning his long flirtation with revolutionaries that led him to fight in China during the 1920s and Spain in the 1930s. Clara is hardly bitter; she even seeks to justify the theft. "Love," says she, "gives one rights...