Word: gordon
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...universe of plenty-as audiences can discover beginning this week in Star Wars, a grand and glorious film that may well be the smash hit of 1977, and certainly is the best movie of the year so far. Star Wars is a combination of Flash Gordon, The Wizard of Oz, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers of the '30s and '40s and almost every western ever screened-not to mention the Hardy...
...smarter" weapons. There's the Shillelagh missile that's fired from a 152-mm. gun and is guided by an infra-red beam. There are a couple of others-a type of Maverick and the Copperhead-that are tracked to their targets by laser beams. Real Flash Gordon stuff! But don't worry about me getting vaporized by a laser or anything like that...
Died. Harry Gordon Johnson, 53, Keynesian economist and professor at the University of Chicago and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Switzerland; after a long illness; in Geneva. An expert on international finance, Johnson frequently attacked the monetarist school of economists. He believed unemployment was a greater social problem than inflation and at times espoused both devaluation of the dollar and a guaranteed minimum income...
...Gordon Kramer--Strange Brew...
Frost pounces. "But surely, in all you've just said, you have proved exactly that that was the case, that there was a cover-up of criminal activity because you've already said, and the record shows you knew, that Hunt and Liddy [E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, who had served on Nixon's secret White House plumbers' team] were involved ... you knew that, in fact, criminals would be protected...