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Film Star Michael Caine's new movie Pulp, now being shot in Malta, is surfing the current wave of nostalgia with a re-creation of old Holly wood times. Pint-sized Mickey Rooney and gravel-larynxed Lionel Stander are playing a couple of gangsters, and four Maltese cats are masquerading as Mae West, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich. But what really catches the Zeitgeist of those crazy days is the bit where Rooney gets shot and Stander does a backward somersault into the pool to surface in the middle of a floating...
...another action on the Pentagon Papers case, an attorney for Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) yesterday asked Chief Judge Bailey Aldrich of the Court of Appeals to extend restrictions on the grand jury to prevent it from questioning third parties about how Gravel received his copy of the Pentagon Papers...
Aldrich took the request under advisement, and said that if it was not granted he would order a new, indefinite stay of the grand jury inquiry to permit Gravel to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Gravel released portions of the Pentagon Papers last summer at a midnight meeting of a legislative subcommittee he chairs, and later provided a version of the report for publication by Beacon Press in Boston...
...temporary order allows the grand jury hearings to continue until the court makes a final decision on whether or not Gravel and his associates will be required to testify