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...weak case. His lead-off witness, former Radioman Charles Sledge, was the most damaging to Mitchell. Only Sledge, 23, black and a luggage-factory worker from Sardis, Miss., would say that he "positively" saw Mitchell shoot a group of Vietnamese women, children and old men cowering in a ditch. Sledge said that he recalled seeing Mitchell confer with Lieut. William Calley Jr. at the edge of the ditch before the two opened fire on the villagers from about five or six feet away. "They were falling and screaming," he testified...
...seen Five Easy Pieces, then you can understand why its mammoth box-office figures in Variety each week seem something like a telegraphed, last-ditch mass suicide threat on the part of the movie-going public. For this film's enormous success clearly has little to do with its cinematic merits, which are not all that numerous, and everything to do with the morose message it manages to transmit. Five Easy Pieces is about emotionally handicapped people trying desperately to ward off terminal psychic disaster-and, accordingly, its phenomenal appeal seems very much a symptom of a national mood bordering...
...October 1944, at the age of 60, with Nazi defeat in view, Reck went too far. He had already become participant in a circle of intellectuals planning for a Hitlerless Germany. When he ignored his draft notice requiring him to serve in the last-ditch Volkssturm, he was arrested for "undermining the morale of the armed forces" and shipped to Dachau. In February 1945, Reck was executed...
...Boston College Eagle Rock Festival turned to Harvard yesterday in a last ditch effort to find an acceptable site for the event, and finding none, went the way of Powder Ridge. It's been cancelled...
...than 75% of the system is already built and plans call for completion of the whole package by 1990. Moreover, the sheer challenge of the feat has become an end in itself. As one water engineer put it: "I see no sense in leaving several hundred miles of concrete ditch uncompleted...