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...apartment near Detroit's Wayne State University campus. During the day Joni read Bertolt Brecht and Saul Bellow. At night, after completing their cabaret act, the Mitchells were hosts for boisterous all-night poker games often attended by Gordon Lightfoot, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. But after one year the marriage began to crumble. Joni demanded more independence from her husband, who accuses her of deliberate scene stealing...
...other event that reopened the fair-trial, free-press issue came last month, when Federal District Court Judge J. Robert Elliott reversed the conviction of William Galley and ordered him released from confinement in the My Lai case. Elliott's foremost argument was that "massive adverse pretrial publicity" had prevented the six-officer panel at Galley's court-martial in 1971 from considering the case without prejudice and that, therefore, he had not been fairly tried...
...epoch of Hollywood's great, and great looking film comediennes-a group that extended from Carole Lombard and Constance Bennett to Jean Arthur and Lucille Ball-is as extinct as the Movietone newsreel. Robert Redford and Paul Newman, Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, these are the happy couples who now hit it big at the box office. Audiences in search of funny girls have learned to forsake the theater for Valerie and Mary on the smaller screen. Mary opts for the soft approach. Every week, as Mary Richards, the effervescent assistant TV producer, she manages to discover fresh comic...
...soft-spoken "generalist," Richard L. Terrell, 55, who rose from messenger through a wide variety of jobs at GM to head the car, truck, body and assembly divisions. Terrell had been considered a candidate for president and chief operating officer, but that post went to a friendly rival, Elliott M. ("Pete") Estes, who replaces retiring president Edward N. Cole, an innovative engineer. Estes, 58, a jovial, mustachioed product engineer and auto-racing enthusiast, joined GM as a teenager in 1934. As president, he will oversee GM's $3.6 billion foreign operations, while continuing to manage North American auto production...
Vulnerable Opinion. Many legal experts were initially skeptical of much of Elliott's reasoning, and agreed with a Justice Department official's assessment that "the opinion appears vulnerable on most of its points." Elliott's conclusions about publicity were the most controversial. For one thing, members of the court-martial panel were not likely to read or hear anything substantive outside the courtroom that was not presented in exceptionally grim detail by prosecution witnesses...