Word: finality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue suit, is almost indistinguishable from the defense lawyers clustered around him. Nonetheless, Bundy is suspected by police of being one of the worst mass murderers in U.S. history, responsible for a trail of up to 36 young women victims, spanning four years and four states. As a final outlandish touch, his sensational murder trial is being televised live, under a recent Florida high court decision. It was not affected by last week's Supreme Court ruling that pretrial hearings need not be public...
Despite all their wondrous tracking stations, bristling with huge radar antennas and feeding the most advanced electronic computers, America's top military and civilian space scientists could not predict even roughly where Skylab would fall. Until the final hours, they could narrow the area of eventual impact only to a vast global band between 50° north latitude and 50° south latitude?a sweep of about 109 million sq. mi., or nearly 56% of the earth's area. Conceded Hal Sierra, one of the technicians monitoring Skylab's death throes from the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center near Houston...
...crucial final countdown will begin when Skylab drops to about 120 miles above earth, roughly 48 hours before its re-entry into the atmosphere. At that point, a higher-level interagency team of experts, including NASA Administrator Robert A. Frosch, will take up positions in the Skylab Coordination Center on the sixth floor of NASA headquarters in Washington. Getting his information and recommendations from the Houston center, NORAD and the Marshall Space Flight "enter at Huntsville, Ala., Frosch will make the final decisions on what, if anything, should be done to try to influence Skylab's final fall...
...audience. The poet based her devastating work on the true case of a Detroit woman who, while auditioning for a role in a play, was killed with a sledgehammer by its young black author during an argument scene--before the eyes of her four-year-old son. In its final, eloquently angry moment, Lorde repeated the plea and statement, "We cannot live without our lives...
...final fight is pretty exciting, no matter how bad the rest of the movie may be. So your best bet is to arrive an hour-and-a-half late, catch the fight at the end, sit through the break between showings and watch the initial bout to refresh your memory. Then you'll be ready for Rocky III--"the story continues a little more...