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Although the Kennedy-Hatfield resolution has attracted only 20 supporters in the Senate, it has a better chance of passage in the House, which last week held an extraordinary eight-hour arms-control debate. The most recent comparable session was a discussion of the Viet Nam War in 1969. In somber tones Speaker Tip O'Neill spoke of the overabundance of warheads possessed by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Said he: "What is happening to us? What is the cause of this madness? I hope and pray the [freeze resolution] will provide the vehicle to stop this arms race." Republican...
...Atticus Finch in the 1963 movie To Kill a Mockingbird, Gregory Peck captured well the kindly, yet determined sensibilities of a rural Southern lawyer. The actor has moved north to Gettysburg, Pa., for his next role, in The Blue and the Gray, an eight-hour CBS TV mini-series to be aired next March. Queuing up in a distinguished line that includes Walter Huston, Henry Fonda, Raymond Massey and Hal Holbrook, Peck, 65, is taking up stovepipe and chin whiskers to portray Abraham Lincoln. "I'm in seven scenes," says Greg, "but I only get to speak in five...
...booters could have picked any one of a number of excuses after last night's contest--a letdown from Wednesday's tremendous 0-0 deadlock with Hartwick, the eight-hour bus ride to Ithaca, or the unfamiliar astroturf and game time...
...Mujahedin flinch. On the day of the Raja'i and Bahonar funerals, Mujahedin gunmen assassinated two more ranking Khomeini supporters. One was Hojjatoleslam Seyed Nasser Banijamal, director of internal affairs at Tehran's Court for Combatting Sin. Three days later, Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards fought an eight-hour gun battle with Mujahedin in Tehran's streets. According to the government's own reports, more than 100 similar shootouts with Mujahedin and other leftist guerrillas have erupted in cities as far flung as Bandar Abbas on the gulf and Astara on the Soviet border...
Kenneth Bookstein spent most of his summer at Interlochen Music Festival breaking into the women's dormitory. His motives were really quite innocent, however--he simply wanted to practice on the building's nine-foot grand. Now one Harvard pianist ponders Bookstein's reputed eight-hour practicing binges here: "He must have made some sort of deal with the department secretary who controls the keys...