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...promises as a Senator to work to reverse the Supreme Court's school-desegregation decision and to restrict the court's power generally. He refers to the nine Supreme Court Justices as "a little group of politicians [who have] not had enough experience to handle one chicken thief in Mitchell County" (the bottom of Georgia's backwoods; county seat: Camilla, pop. 4,000). He calls the U.S. foreign-aid program a "global WPA," and roars: "We gave money to build grain elevators in Pakistan. Why, that's 12,500 miles from Georgia...
Double Take. In Rome, police looked for the thief who drove off in Gustavo Zontini's car when he parked it outside the station house to report that someone had stolen his groceries from the back seat...
Creating spoofs of odd gangster types, the actors turn this bedlam into constant comedy. As chief thief, Guinness wears enormous sweaters, a ten foot scarf, and chipmunk teeth. The stare of a worried, weird master-mind that often adorns his face can merge effortlessly into an upset smile of sudden defeat or a polished smirk of careless confidence. Gliding through perpetual intrigue, Guinness is at his best...
...father, Ernesto Picchioni, was known to all Italy as the "Monster of Nerola." With her mother, two sisters and a brother, Carolina lived with him in a dank stone cottage in a lonely gorge in the hills east of Rome. Father Picchioni was an itinerant olive-picker, chicken thief, and loud-mouthed braggart who was first a Fascist, later a Communist. Always roaring at his wife and children, he once made them dig a long family grave in the backyard so that "it will be ready when I want...
Time and again, witnesses were allowed to contradict themselves and change their stories without reproof. Sample: Thief Willie Manoch testified that Jungschlaeger brought an arms-laden ship into Djambi in May. The defense replied that, due to low tides, the river port could not be entered in May. Said Manoch: "Oh yes, that's true. It was in October.'' Soothed the prosecutor: "One can make a mistake." Jungschlaeger himself pointed out that the Americans, Dutch and British were supposed to be involved in this "secret" operation. "And why then," he cried, "am I standing here alone, like...