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...helped the original vision come true parted the curtains in his office and watched the gleaming rocket. "It's sad," said Kurt H. Debus, director of the Kennedy Space Center. Now 63, Debus began firing rockets that were little more than firecrackers with Wernher von Braun in Peenemunde in the 1930s. The idea of landing a man on the moon in those days was barely a dream. Debus has been in charge of every manned launch conducted by the U.S.; there has never been a failure. He recalls with a certain humor that an Army general told...
...famed Director Max Reinhardt. In persuading Guinness to take the part, De Concini recalls, "I told him I saw the last days in the bunker like floating into nowhere in a first-class jumbo jet. You go into unreality, between life and death-der Führer crying, Eva Braun dancing to Tea for Two, the Nazi empire falling into destruction. I wanted to film all this in the manner of an 8-mm. movie...
Almost the only set for the movie is a replica of the Führerbunker, complete with German magazines of the period and other authentic memorabilia. Through it drift re-creations of the familiar faces of three decades ago: Braun, Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels and Alfred Jodl. In his scenes, Guinness strives for a balance between evil and humanity. "Once you start playing a person, it becomes unbelievable if you have him snarling all the time," he says. "I try to indicate a certain sympathy-the sympathy I have for a childish murderer like Macbeth...
...goalie, who switched to offense on man-up situations, had five stops. Gary Braun, a former attackman, played in the nets as a replacement for the Engineers' regular starter, who is out of action with a torn knee ligament. Saturday Harvard hopes to take its first Ivy League victory by defeating Dartmouth...
...Braun faces an improved Crimson attack led by junior John Hagerty, who had five goals and six assists Saturday to up his team-leading point total...