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Marian Wright Edelman, 35. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, Marian Wright became the first black woman admitted to the bar in Mississippi. In 1968 she went to Washington, soon became chief counsel to Ralph Abernathy's Poor People's Campaign. Later, as director of the Washington Research Project, a public-interest law firm, she pressed the Government to enforce federal agency guidelines in desegregation cases. With husband Peter (see below), Mrs. Edelman moved to Boston in 1970, is now director of the Children's Defense Fund, a broadened outgrowth of her Washington work...
...Today: Mississippi Mermaid, 5:30, 9:25 and The Bride Wore Black, 7:30 Starts Wed.: Women in Love, 5:30, 9:40 and Sunday, Bloody Sunday...
...Mississippi Mermaid, showing at the Brattle until Tuesday, tops the best double-bill in town, Mermaid, like Cinderella Liberty, is a romantic work, but in this case it's romance with a lot of heart and brain behind it. Francols Truffaut, working with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo, has created a beautiful motion picture that is in many ways more rewarding than the Antoine Doinel series. Mermaid is playing with another Truffaut flick, The Bride Wore Black starring Jeanne Moreau. This one is relatively lightweight, but it's still an eminently enjoyable bit of story-telling. Shows begin...
...Mississippi Mermaid, another Truffaut film, comes to the Brattle on Wednesday. It seems corny once in a while, but it's a technical masterpiece. Besides, everything is great to look at: The film was made on the beautiful island of Reunion off the African coast, and it stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. Still another Truffaut flick, The Bride Wore Black starring the wonderful Jeanne Moreau, is the second feature on the bill...
...second in retaliation. The Russians will undoubtedly try to match the advances, thus triggering yet another escalation in the arms race. Warns Retired Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque, director of the Center for Defense Information: "If both sides have a first-strike capability, the world is a tinderbox." But Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, advised his colleagues to give President Nixon "running room" and bargaining chips at the arms limitation talks. SALT will be a major item at the summit conference when the President visits Russia at the end of the month. After...