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...Plan & the Purpose." The FBI beefed up its Mississippi forces to 153 men?ten times the normal complement. The contingent was headed by able Roy K. Moore, 50, a native of Oregon and a 26-year FBI veteran. Around Philadelphia agents met almost as much hostility as the civil rights workers had?one found several snakes in his car one morning. But the FBI built its case persistently. Agents infiltrated the White Knights of the Klan and paid out several thousand dollars for information...
...Stram gloated in a famous film of the runaway. "It looks like a Chinese fire drill. "About 3½ years later, a motorcycle accident paralyzed Karl Kassulke's legs. Recalling only that the Chiefs had an intricate offense, he says, "Certain memories have been lost, but I've got my normal thinking back," and he has been "fending very well in a wheelchair." Able to drive a special car, Kassulke, 44, works for Broken Wing, a Christian outreach to the handicapped. He teaches the various transferring techniques, such as from wheelchair to bed. "And did you know I married my nurse...
...shrewd. Unlike the sequestered Emily Dickinson, Hellman was one of life's winners, blessed with fame, money, affection and what she seemed to seek most, a measure of power. Her childhood disillusioned her. But whose childhood does not? Her adult life was not marred by more than the normal share of grief. Only the ordeal of Hammett's last illness makes her vulnerable enough for an audience to like, despite the verbal savagery that she hurled at almost everyone she knew. The decision to present Hellman in a two-hour monologue provides a further emotional advantage: because her targets...
...best list. Now that, as Seidelman notes, "women directors are no longer looked at as novelty items," their more established sisters can get back into the act. Barbra Streisand, 43, the all-around auteur of 1983's Yentl, will soon direct an adaptation of the AIDS play The Normal Heart. And Elaine May, 53, an early-'70s trailblazer with her comedies A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid, is currently directing Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in Ishtar--at $30 million, the most expensive film ever entrusted to a woman...
Only in Libya did passions seem as undivided as ever last week. Though rumors that Gaddafi was now part of a five-man ruling junta appeared to be unfounded, the colonel did seem shaken by the attack. Yet even as life in Tripoli returned to normal, so too did its regime's posturings. In the hope of milking their unusual status as victims for all its propaganda value, the Libyans posted grisly photographs of civilians, many of them children, killed by the raid. They also treated foreign journalists to carefully controlled tours of nonmilitary areas that had been damaged, they...