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...movies. He will also read and write, retreating to what Marcia calls his "treehouse environment," a little suite in a former carriage house a few steps away from the rest of their Victorian-style home in San Anselmo. There, near his Mickey Mouse phone, his Wookie pencil holder and his telescope, he has books on mythology, like Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and five three-ring notebooks, in which he has written notes on the history of Star Wars, past, present and future...
...ready to see a 30-ft.-sq. bath with sunken marble tub and gold fixtures, similar to the Roman baths," Windsor wrote. "What I found was a tiny room about 5 ft. by 7 ft. with a plain white lavatory and plain white tub, a toilet paper holder that does not work, and that is all. There is not a filling station in Orange or Chatham County that does not have a better bathroom. It is plainer than an old shoe." Beyond that, the Landmark went on to insinuate that the management of the News & Observer has been known...
...record holder: a 1979 spill off the east coast of Mexico that took nine months...
...court and the University are stifling free speech. Obviously West Germany is not the United States, the Germans have much to fear from Nazi propaganda. But book burning has no place in a democracy. Moreover, for a university to revoke its degrees because of the beliefs of the holder strikes a heavy blow at intellectual freedom. Yet few could mourn the disappearance of Dr. Staeglich's book from the face of the earth--that is why the case is so difficult. But that is also why it is so important. Making distinctions between acceptable and unacceptable ideas is a dangerous...
...abroad, Elizabeth has logged about 800,000 miles to far-flung dominions and friendly former colonies, more than the combined journeys of all of England's previous monarchs since the Norman conquest. In only four years, John Paul has flown 150,000 miles, more than the previous record holder, Paul VI, traveled in his entire 15-year pontificate. Both Elizabeth and John Paul were traveling new roads last week, and chronicling their caravans proved especially challenging for TIME'S reportorial teams. Los Angeles Correspondent Alessandra Stanley was drenched by torrential California rains while she followed the Queen...