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...terrible toll exacted by emotional commitment. Minnie and Moskowitz deals with the positive, sometimes desperate need for that same commitment. Its theme, familiar but here recharged with emotion, is the search of two people for an anodyne to loneliness. Created in a mood of sustained ebullience, it is his lightest, most accessible film, and one of the few movies in recent times that could be called joyous...
...creaky criminal justice system as Erdmann sees it every clay. He is not naive about his clients. About 98% of them are guilty, he says, but his duty as their lawyer is to do his best-including bargaining with prosecutors-to get defendants acquitted or secure the lightest possible sentences...
Marinaro, who lifts weights before each game to "get my blood going," needs all the muscle he can muster. Running behind the lightest offensive line (average weight: 209 Ibs.) in the league, he is the constant target of blitzing linebackers and stacked nine-man defenses. "Ed is a marked man." says Musick. "He gets more late hits and piling-ons than anyone I've ever seen." It may be true that some Ivy League defensemen couldn't raise a welt on a waterboy, but the pro scouts are flocking to Cornell games, and Marinaro is virtually certain...
...addition to lively anecdotes, Deford, a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, provides mundane business details and splendidly unmemorable facts: Arizona's Jacque Mercer, the 1949 queen, was not only the lightest winner, at 106 lbs., and the second shortest, 5 ft. 3 in., but the last contestant not born in a hospital. Hefty appendices should be especially valuable to 25th century anthropologists. They contain such data as winners' measurements, figure trends (waists getting narrower, hips and busts balancing at the ideal of 35½-22½-35½), and the fact that there have been 228 contestants whose first names...
Helium, the second lightest element, is most familiarly known as the gas that makes children's balloons rise to string-length heights. It also has scientific and military uses considered strategically important by the Federal Government. Helium has appeared on military embargo lists since before World War I, when the Allies used it in dirigibles.* Today it is used to lift weather balloons, to maintain pressure in liquid-propellant rockets and as a coolant in nuclear power plants. In liquid form, it provides supercool temperatures for laboratory experiments. Thus it seemed a sensible idea when in 1960 the Government...