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...Iraq was ripe for revolt. Under the regime of General Aref, who took over in 1966 after his predecessor and brother Abdul Salem Aref died in a mysterious helicopter crash, the country suffered from so much corruption that the Premier, Lieut. General Taher Yahya, was widely known as "the Thief of Baghdad." A poor administrator and weak boss, Aref bore the additional stigma of last year's defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel. He offended many citizens by decreeing further delays in Iraq's decade-long "transition" from military rule to parliamentary democracy, seemed unable...
...HIGH SATIRE. Relatively high, anyhow. Benson & Hedges gets a lot of laughs as it demonstrates the disadvantages of smoking its longer cigarette: a jewel thief hides behind the drapes, but his B & H sticks through and gives him away; a girl writes in to thank B & H for the extra length, since it comes in handy on her job she sticks it in her mouth while a marksman flicks it with his bullwhip...
...thief, James Earl Ray's specialty was botching his getaway. After heisting $190 from a St. Louis supermarket in 1959, Ray left tracks that the most flat-footed cop could follow: he even parked a car used in the stickup outside his lodgings. That was characteristic of Ray, whose most profitable known caper, grossing only $2,200, was bungled when the escape car crashed. The cruelest of his convictions was for the $11 stickup of a Chicago cab driver...
...some changes. Some previously scheduled rerun episodes of I Spy, Gunsmoke, Big Valley and even Flying Nun,* among others, were postponed-but not dropped-in favor of less brutal installments. On the West Coast, where next season's shows are already in the works, two It Takes a Thief scripts involving assassination have just been chucked. Alan Armor of CBS's new western, Lancer, has edited out one shooting and one ambush from his premiere show, and the producers of Gunsmoke, Get Smart and The Name of the Game have ordered re-evaluation of all scenarios. Bruce Geller...
...large, long florist's box. 'But," one guard said, "from him came the breath of something other than lilies. It was a sort of alcoholic fragrance." The alcoholic fragrance turned to a drunken stench as the city of Boston got increasingly enraged. The Post reported angrily that "the thief was intoxicated...badly in need of a shave...wore brown clothing...had curly hair." Barber shops were combed for a sign of a curly haired boy. A long car chase in Newton finally gave the cod over to Harvard police, and no charges were pressed...