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...cast is unmanageably large. Some 60 people have to be present for the trial to proceed. Customarily present are Judge Samuel Conti, 58, born and educated in California, reputed to be hard on drug-law violators. He has tried attempted Presidential Assassin Sara Jane Moore and Black Panther David Hilliard. Last February, 4½ months into the Hell's Angels affair, the judge collapsed from exhaustion. Court was recessed as he rested up for two weeks. The prosecution's "Hell's Angels Task Force" sits at a center table: four lawyers and a shifting group of federal...
...people indicted last June, two submitted their cases on stipulated facts and were found guilty by Judge Conti. Some were "turned" into witnesses, some disappeared, and some are to be tried separately. Of the 18 defendants in this popularly named "Hell's Angels trial" only ten are Angels, or former Angels. Eight never joined the club, including the three women defendants who are wives of various defendants...
Mary Tyler Moore has come to Broadway, and it's a love match. Her kind of natural, straightforward appeal defies resistance. She has shown considerable temerity in taking over the role of a quadriplegic, first played by Tom Conti with virtuosic skill. The audacity of Moore's undertaking is redeemed by the high caliber of her performance...
Lines that left Conti's mouth as self-mocking witticisms seem more like sarcastic putdowns coming from Moore's. It is scarcely due to her inflections but to the fact that rightly or wrongly, one expects a woman to respond differently to personal calamity than a man does...
...statement to Conti, August said the article does not disturb him, and added that it might help him in the election. "This midnight issue was delivered without any chance for us to respond," he said. "The voting public have already made their minds...