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...grace is finally administered above the ear, and often a piece of paper is left by the body bearing a skull and crossbones and the initials E.M.-the sign of Esquadrao da Morte. Sometimes there is also a note saying "I pushed marijuana" or "I was a car thief...
...domestic programs much of the $30 billion a year that the war has been costing. The U.S. faces vast and pressing needs in the cities, the schools, the hospitals and the nation's very air and water. Many of its legislators and citizens thus see the ABM as a thief that would snatch away billions of dollars sorely needed for domestic use. The likely cost for the specific ABM program already begun is between $5 billion and $10 billion spread over several years?which is not really too immense a burden. But many are convinced that the ABM, once undertaken...
Guerrilla Warfare. Most of the losses and breakdowns are caused by professional thieves. They pick the lock of the coin box or stuff the coin chute with thin pieces of paper and after several would-be callers have dropped in their coins, retrieve the money. Last year one thief admitted that he habitually got into 20 to 30 pay phones a day and earned $20,000 annually. Less sophisticated professionals often smash the telephones or rip them out and carry them away. Plain spiteful vandalism also accounts for an increasing number of broken phones. Teen-agers rip out wires...
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A wily Texas canine matches wits with a thief intent on stealing from an itinerant peddler's wagon in "Pancho, Fastest Paw in the West...
...Italy's greatest hack (Black Friday, Planet of the Vampires, Kill Baby Kill). In the tradition of Edgar G. Ulmer and the more outlandishly-scripted Charbol melodramas, Bava films wretched nonsense with great style, color, and originality. Don't attempt to inject meaning into this tale of a Super-thief and his sexy girlfriend who inhabit a sumptuous underwater playground which makes Dr. No's look like Rindge Tech. It doesn't matter: film-making as slick and out-landish as Bava's is quite infectious, and Danger: Diabolik proved one of the few pure pleasures...