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DIED. Elizabeth Hartman, 45, high-strung, red-haired actress of stage and screen who won quick fame in 1966 with an Academy Award nomination for her role in the film A Patch of Blue and subsequently co-starred in The Group (1966), The Fixer (1968) and Walking Tall (1973), as well as a 1969 Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town; in an apparent suicide leap from her fifth-floor apartment; in Pittsburgh. Hartman was an outpatient of a Pittsburgh psychiatric hospital, where she was being treated for depression that reportedly stemmed from the decline of her acting career...
Glendale church officials proclaimed themselves "extremely happy." Elsewhere reaction was mixed, although few expected compensation lawsuits to bankrupt public treasuries. Confiscation is difficult to prove, and even where it is established, many judges remain reluctant to award significant damages. "As long as we leave the property owner with a reasonable use for the property," says Gary Netzer of the Los Angeles city attorney's office, "the courts still haven't ruled that it is a taking...
Spoleto's brief production would not have been possible were it not for London's, which provided the other two members of the cast. Yvonne Bryceland, a fellow South African for whom Fugard wrote the role of the folk artist, won an Olivier Award, the West End's equivalent of a Tony, for her performance. At Charleston, she once again convincingly blended the workaday and the visionary, making an audience see glory even in Douglas Heap's set -- in truth, reminiscent of a tatty disco. Her manic scurrying in denial of advancing age was a shrewd counterpoint to the prematurely...
...despite his long years of service to the district and his national prominence, Harvard never bestowed an honorary degree on O'Neill, something which has wounded him deeply, according to friends. This prompted public figures, including Cambridge and Boston politicians, to pressure Harvard to award him an honorary...
Even those who criticize the decision to award an honorary degree to the German president, saying that he has covered-up his father's war crimes as a Nazi foreign service officer, pose their complaints against the younger von Weizsacker in terms of the laudable standards he has held for his fellow countryman. Von Weizsacker's standard is one that demands personal reconcilation with the past, and a commitment to bear the consequences of Nazi attrocities...