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...seen a renaissance of the cinema in Eastern Europe, with most of the activity located in Czechoslovakia. The wide range of content and style in the modern Czech cinema indicates the importance of that renaissance. At one end of the spectrum we find Milos Forman, director of Peter and Paula and A Blond in Love, whose gentle touch conveys exquisitely subtle shifts of mood. At the other end stands the team of Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, who have created in The Shop on Main Street a film of enormous impact and meaning...
...been the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana." There could be little disagreement from the crowds who had jammed the Indianapolis courtroom for five weeks. What attracted-and repelled-the spectators was the trial of Mrs. Gertrude Baniszewski, 37, two of her children, Paula, 18, and John, 13, and two neighbor youths, Coy Hubbard and Richard Hobbs, both 15. All were charged with the protracted death by torture of pretty Sylvia Marie Likens, 16, who with her younger sister Jenny had boarded in the Baniszewski home...
Last week, after more than eight hours' deliberation, the jury of eight men and four women reached its ver dict. Gertrude Baniszewski was convicted of first-degree murder; although the prosecution demanded the death penalty, the jury showed mercy and she was given a life sentence. Paula was found guilty of second-degree murder, which in Indiana carries a mandatory life term. John Baniszewski, Hubbard and Hobbs were convicted of man slaughter, and will each serve from two to 21 years in prison. Still awaiting trial is Stephanie, who, alone of her cruel clan, told the prosecution...
...December, a grand jury indicted Gertrude Baniszewski, Paula, Stephanie and John Jr., along with Hubbard and Hobbs, on charges of first-degree murder. (Under Indiana law, minors face the same maximum penalty for murder as adults: the electric chair.) As the trial got under way last week before a jury of eight men and four women, Mrs. Baniszewski, John Jr. and Hubbard pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity; Paula, Stephanie and Ricky pleaded simply not guilty. Upstairs in an anteroom sat Sylvia's parents, still not comprehending how and why it had happened. Sitting sunken-cheeked in court...
...Died. Paula Strasberg, 55, wife of Actors Studio Head Lee Strasberg and mother of Actress Susan, who helped her husband preach the gospel of Method acting, served as dramatic coach to Marilyn Monroe; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...