Word: iii
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Funniest Scene from a Movie: Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl, playing Richard III as a queen who would be king...
Instead of jail terms or fines. Circuit Court Judge Sam Harrod III, 37. often used to sentence young offenders to haircuts, loss of their drivers' licenses or a day of picking up cans and bottles along the highways. Says the judge, an eleven-year veteran of the bench in rural Woodford County. Ill., "The courts have become the parents of last resort. I was trying to get young people to change their ways before they got sent to prison." But the American Civil Liberties Union complained to the Illinois Courts Commission that his sentences were violating the defendants...
...rock & roll center at the time of Rolling Stone's founding a decade ago-to-the center of media glamour and respectability, Manhattan. Wenner then reaped another bumper crop of publicity when he cultivated the acquaintance of two pseudocelebrities (famous only by dint of their surnames). William Randolph Hearst III and Jack Ford, and gave them a magazine supposedly all their own, Outside...
...swaths through stands of white and ponderosa pine to meet the national building demands. Says Jim Hilbert, a local Teamster official: "Sure, we ought to grow. Create more jobs. City fathers run this place, and they don't want growth. But you can't stop it." William H. Cowles III, publisher of the Spokane Spokesman-Review, says hopefully: "We can learn from others, and maybe we will be wise enough to tell the difference between growth and controlled growth...
...quicksilver Holman darted down the lane for a three-point play to bring the score to 53-48. He hooked up on another three-point play exactly a minute later, tying it up at 53 apiece and the as-yet-winless Beavers began to look less like a Division III pushover...