Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military launch center. Exposed film is stored in six cannisters that are periodically ejected into the earth's atmosphere, descending by parachute toward a point in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii, where they are snatched from the air by a giant Y-shaped sky hook bolted to the nose of an Air Force cargo plane. If that fails, the cannisters float on or just under the surface of the Pacific, giving off radio and sonar signals, and are recovered by frogmen...
...witness stand last week. Again Hansen kept mum, and Prosecutor Cooper, a prominent Los Angeles defense attorney hired by Hawaii to handle the case, had no choice but to move for dismissal. Said Cooper to the court as Hansen was set free and Fasi taken off the hook: "Justice has been thwarted." So, too. may be Ariyoshi's hopes for a second term...
DIED. Cyril Ritchard, 79, Australian-born actor, singer and director best known for his portrayal of Captain Hook in Peter Pan; of a heart attack; in Chicago, where he had been appearing in the musical Side by Side by Sondheim. A courtly, mellifluous-voiced bon vivant, Ritchard began in 1917 as a chorus boy in Sydney, played everything from Restoration comedy to modern farce in Britain, Australia and on Broadway. "I've seen so much illness and suffering," he once said, "why inflict more? My job is to make people grin a bit and see the joke...
...fight itself was sedate. Moore, known as the "Mongoose," seemed puzzled, perhaps because one of the tiger's friends had told him that Plimpton was a former intercollegiate champion with a murderous hook and a savage nature. The contest lasted for two three-minute rounds and one two-minute round, the last one truncated by the thoughtful Brown, who pushed the hand of the timing clock with his finger...
...used by psychics), the committee's goal is to rebut what Author Charles Fair calls "the New Nonsense." Headed by Paul Kurtz, a philosophy professor at the State University of New York in Buffalo, the committee includes such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, Psychologist B.F. Skinner, Philosopher Sidney Hook, Author Isaac Asimov...