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Last week California was also the scene of a bizarre single murder. Oakland's highly regarded school superintendent, Marcus A. Foster, 50, was ambushed in a parking lot and killed by a hail of fire that included bullets loaded with cyanide. Cut down with him was Robert Blackburn, his deputy, who was expected to live...
...script is modeled closely on the high-energy comedies of the '30s and '40s. Jackson's Vicki Allessio is the kind of sassy, intelligent woman with a sure sense of her own vulnerability and dignity that Katharine Hepburn played so well. Segal's Steven Blackburn is a role that Cary Grant both defined and epitomized-a man of charm, still susceptible to being tongue-tied and flummoxed by the right woman...
...Representatives from their own districts, as with a group of North Carolinians who called on Congressman James T. Broyhill. The lobbyists generally received polite audiences with their Representatives, and even some assurances of support for antiwar measures. Only occasionally did they confront a member like Georgia's Benjamin Blackburn, who argued briefly with a University of Minnesota law student and then snapped: "Get out of my damn office." The primary aim of the lobbyists was to help along the Hatfield-McGovern amendment (see page 16), which would require withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Viet Nam by June...
...sent back $2,500 for other passports and air fare for Wife Charmain and their two sons. The last of the lolly went for furniture, appliances and toys for the brick bungalow that Biggs rented, for $26.88 a week, at 52 Hibiscus Road in the Melbourne suburb of Blackburn...
...Harold Wilson once called her "the best man in the Cabinet." That did not bother Barbara Castle. Being petite and auburn-tressed, she resembles a man-or some men-only in her determination to get a job done well. A left-wing Laborite from the cotton-milling town of Blackburn in Lancashire and the only woman in Wilson's Cabinet, Mrs. Castle, 56, has just been handed a job that would test the mettle of any male. After seven weeks as Wilson's new Minister of Employment and Productivity (she was formerly Minister of Transport), she now faces...