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...runs the accepted version of the Romanov regicide. Now two reporters from BBC Television, Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold, assert a dramatically new version: the Reds faked the original massacre scene in order to convince White Russians-who soon captured Ekaterinburg-that their goal of a royal restoration was hopeless because the Tsar and his family were dead. The two journalists conclude that there were not enough bullet holes or bloodstains in the murder room to accord with the gunshot deaths of seven people. In their opinion, the women were spared for a time. Alexandra was a cousin of Kaiser...
...STRIKE is over at Cambion, but the struggle between union workers and management continues. Faced with the stubborn refusal of Cambion to negotiate, the leadership of C.U.E. Local 262 realized its position was hopeless and so recommended that the rank and file vote to end the seven-month-old strike. The move was designed to preserve the union at the plant, at a time when about 100 of the original 250 workers who went on strike last April had been forced to find other jobs and another 35 former strikers had crossed picket lines to report to work...
...point: a 1961 article in Look also titled "Why Johnny Can't Write," a report entitled "General Education for a Free Society," which in 1945 expressed precisely the same sentiments as the Newsweek story; and a 1912 issue of the English Journal which also described poor Johnny in equally hopeless terms...
When Cambion management continued to refuse to bargain at recent meetings arranged by various parties--including federal and state mediators and City Manager James L. Sullivan--union leadership realized their position was hopeless and they recommended that the rank and file vote to end the strike...
...picture opens. Carrie -played with consummate craft by Sissy Spacek, who was so fine in Badlands-could not be a more hopeless case. She is the child of a religious fanatic (Piper Laurie) who is sexually repressed to the point of madness. Carrie does not even know about menstruation and when, in her high school locker room, she gets her period for the first time, she becomes hysterical. Turning to the other girls for help, she is instead turned upon and abused in what may be the most terrifying demonstration of the adolescent capacity for mass cruelty ever filmed...