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...five of whom are writing books on the case. "I feel Mrs. Harris' behavior on the witness stand is outrageous," said one of them. "She sits there outsmarting everyone, trying to seduce the jury without the slightest remorse." Said another author, Shana Alexander, looking up from her note pad: "I feel great sympathy for her because I recognize bits of myself. I've had the same problems with pills and men. I've been there." The defendant's younger son, Marine Corps Lieutenant James Harris, paced outside the courtroom, reluctant to enter. Said...
...aged immigrant, almost totally withdrawn from husband and family, living immersed in memory and in imaginary dialogues with great literary and political figures of history. Stricken by cancer, she is taken on a farewell visit to children and grandchildren, reaching a final resting place in the San Francisco pad of a hippy granddaughter. Eva finds in the girl an echo of her own past, and she makes some inarticulate efforts to pass on her heritage. But as played by Lila Kedrova, the old woman mostly seems merely gaga. It is sometimes hard to determine whether her grimaces are meant...
...court each autumn, Matthau, 60, plays a crusty, liberal Supreme Court Justice. Clayburgh, 35, portrays a conservative Californian who becomes the first woman appointed to the high court. Though Matthau gets entangled in legal briefs, First Monday will be one of the few films in which he will not pad around in an undershirt and boxer shorts. In fact, for shots outside the Supreme Court Building in Washington, B.C., he and Clayburgh judiciously wore down jackets underneath their robes. Says she: "We might look like stuffed pigs, but it was freezing...
...much more than a little final testing and adjusting, the Columbia team could attempt a launch as early as March, though a later date is more likely. Full-throated jubilation over Columbia must wait?and perhaps wait some more?yet the sheer presence of the shuttle on the pad at long last charged Kennedy Space Center, and the space community in general, with a mood of revived expectancy and muted exultation. No hats in the air and no drinks all around as in the old days of A-O.K. lift-offs and jubilant splashdowns. Still, the spirit...
...space shuttle is the U.S.'s launching pad into a new era of space research and manufacturing," says President Karl Harr Jr. of the Aerospace Industries Association. As such, it could help the nation reclaim the leadership in manned spaceflight that it has never relinquished in unmanned explorations, such as those of Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. Says NASA Engineer Robert Gray, mindful of the Soviet advances in recent years: "The shuttle is revolutionary. We'll catch up fast...