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...smaller U.S. operators are also reaching for the skies. Robert Truax, a former Navy engineer, built a rocket in his Saratoga, Calif., backyard four years ago, and hopes to be the first private businessman to launch commercial cargo into space, possibly from Cape Canaveral. Entrepreneur George Koopman's Menlo Park, Calif., firm, American Rocket, is conducting flight tests at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California. Like Truax, Koopman says the hardest part about starting a space-transport firm is raising enough money. Says he: "I'm still out there beating the bushes for funds...
This kind of material works best uncinematized -- a radio play with its own gentle celluloid night-light. But Screenwriter Hugh Whitemore and Director David Jones have thrown in trips to Central Park, vignettes of the Doels doing house chores. And Anne Bancroft has provided Helene, a native of Pennsylvania, with a Noo Yawk accent that rasps on the ear. She hurls apostrophes to the walls and abuse at her typewriter. One sighs: Relax, Anne, you got the job. As Frank, though, Anthony Hopkins gets the job done. With shrewd understatement, he fills out the portrait of a man who demands...
...into," he explains. "All you have to do is count to 21." Among Williams' old college playmates, Eddie Owens is dealing at Caesars Palace and Sam Smith is valeting cars. Williams is quick to add that "at a hundred and a half a night, a lot of people would park cars. You can be a porter in this town and make...
...secretary turned educator. Recalls Doris Walker: "I was a little old lady in tennis shoes to my classmates when I went back to college to get a degree in special education." With her new teaching certificate in hand, she took over a public school special-education class in Buena Park, Calif. Twelve years later, in 1980, she founded Hope University-Unico National College for the Gifted Mentally Retarded. Despite the grand title, the institution is located in two cramped rooms behind a shopping center. Still, says Walker, "we have a good beginning, and I have big plans." Among them...
...arts." As Walker explains it, "We want to develop the whole person, and we use the elements of performance, music education, music therapy, drama, dance and art to enable our students to achieve new awareness, personal growth and change in their lives." She developed her approach while at Buena Park, where one of her students, Kuehn, was considered autistic and virtually untrainable. During a music period she mumbled under her breath, "Now what key do we do this song in?" Kuehn correctly piped up, "Key of G." His vocal training began immediately and gave rise to the first Hi Hopes...