Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kidnap-shootout that Jackson's brother Jonathan hoped would force George's release from San Quentin. Instead, Jonathan, Judge Harold Haley and two prisoners were killed. Now the question facing a seven-woman, five-man jury is whether the six San Quentin defendants conspired to launch the 1971 break and are guilty of murder...
...Chagaff of Columbia and Caltech's Sinsheimer. And, an analogy to another situation--decisions involving the military--shows just how flawed this logic is. After all who knows more about how to wage war than the generals, and yet recent experience tells us that the generals, so itching to launch their projects, need to be regulated by others who can exercise better judgement in the public's favor...
...then postponed the deadline three days and allowed an additional 101 captives to fly to Paris. Remaining as hostages were 93 passengers-mostly Israeli or those with Jewish sounding names-and the twelve crew members. It was their lives that hung in the balance as the Israelis decided to launch their raid...
Sickening Speed. Studio stuff, location stuff, newsreel footage, model shots - even outtakes from the classic turkey Tora! Tora! Tora! - are more or less artfully blended to give a vague feeling of what a modern naval engagement must be like - the large distances separating the antagonists when they launch their planes, the sickening speed with which the flames spread when they find their targets. But there is no real sense of the flow of fortune in the battle - the camera shies away from any at tempt at analysis. The Japanese, led by Toshiro Mifune, are neatly dressed and stoic (a useful...
This month a parapsychologist and ghostwriter named Hans Holzer (Haunted Hollywood', The Phantoms of Dixie) is bringing forth a new ectoplasmic epic full of patriots and poltergeists called-what else?-The Spirits of 76. On July 1 a clever adman named Paul Foley will launch a confection entitled Fresh Views of the American Revolution. Foley's text is snappy but traditional. The fresh views turn out to be 19 brand-new, genuine, oldfashioned, neoprimitive paintings of great historic events lately limned by Artist Oscar de Mejo (the Declaration of Independence scene, for example, presents Jefferson, Franklin and three...