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...starts strutting with a fine, brassy pride, sweeping the local citizenry along. Handled right, that scene could have had the jazzy fervor of a jam session at high noon. Director John Badham, however, seems mostly concerned with producing the kind of fancy optical effects that used to punctuate Busby Berkeley routines...
...raise a $300,000 defense fund, while the state of North Carolina spent at least as much. "The irony is that you have criticism of these expensive and prolonged trials; on the other hand, you have criticism that with plea bargaining you don't have enough trials," says Berkeley Law Dean Sanford Kadish...
...chemical so effective that it classified it "top secret," and first used it against a typhus epidemic in Naples, Italy, in 1943. It worked so well that the military promptly began applying DDT against a wide variety of insects responsible for spreading malaria, typhus, cholera and encephalitis. Says Berkeley's Van den Bosch (who now opposes widespread reliance on chemical insecticides): "DDT was beautiful. It was cheap and it killed just about everything...
...Warm Springs in Virginia's Berkeley County that draw the most notable visitors (500 to 600 at once). General Washington has gone there to seek relief from rheumatic fever. Washington originally surveyed this area when it belonged to Lord Fairfax, who later donated the springs to the province "so that these healing waters might be forever free to the publick, for the welfare of suffering humanity." Next fall, however, the Virginia legislature is expected to establish a town of Bath at Warm Springs and to sell off 50 acres in building lots to anyone who wants to build houses...
After serving in the army during World War II, Brimmer entered the University of Washington intent on a career in journalism, but later found economics more to his liking and switched fields. He won a Fulbright Fellowship to India in 1951, deferring admission to Berkeley and Harvard graduate schools, and on returning to the United States he entered Harvard Business School and received his Ph.D...