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...group's most avid conversations center on his prison activities and the hoped-for day of his release. Despite the glaringly obvious differences between the two cases, Manson nurses vague hopes that one day he might win a reversal similar to the one granted Army Lieut. William Galley...
...Galley Slave. Sand's professional labors were at least as arduous as her love life. Like Balzac, Dickens and Dostoyevsky, she was one of the galley slaves of 19th century literature, constantly trying to keep one pen stroke ahead of her creditors. The result was some 60 novels, 25 plays, an autobiography and enough miscellaneous essays to fill a dozen bulging volumes. Her correspondence, which is still being uncovered, promises to fill another 25 volumes. An impassioned propagandist for the romantic movement, she used her writing to champion political as well as sexual revolution...
Another Coppola idea is to hold the magazine's weekly closing in a theater and open the event to the public. Editors would do their work onstage, with galley proofs flashing on a screen behind them, and the audience offering comments, which would be published as a special page of the magazine. Beyond all that, Coppola wants City home-delivered to its projected 100,000 subscribers on Sundays. He explains: "I think it would be nice to have something like the New York Times to settle down with every Sunday morning...
...freighter; the Holt's deck crew trained machine guns on the Mayaguez's deck. With the Marines came a crew to sail the Mayaguez to freedom and a demolition team to check the ship for bombs and booby traps. To the Marines' surprise, no one was aboard. In the galley were bowls of warm rice and tea, but the diners?possibly Cambodians ?had disappeared. The disappointed Marines hoisted a U.S. flag on the freighter's fantail and awaited further developments...
...collaborated to analyze the policies and hardware of the world's largest arms purveyor: the U.S. No stranger to weapons or military politics, Kane commanded a howitzer battery in the peacetime Army in Germany in the early 1950s. As Atlanta bureau chief he directed coverage of the William Galley court martial, last year reported for our cover story on Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and the U.S.-Soviet arms balance...