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...have concluded that the most likely target of a Soviet nuclear attack on Boston would be the frog pond in Boston Common," the former director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories said, and 700 doctors, students and social activists laughed self-consciously...
...Bruce is in front of the cameras again in the upcoming spook spoof The Nude Bomb. Don Adams, a.k.a. Maxwell Smart, tries in his klutzy way to disarm a KAOS bomb that disintegrates clothing and leaves people naked. Adams and Villain Vittorio Gassman fall into Universal's Jaws pond at one point, and Bruce tries unsuccessfully to eat them. Fangs...
Despite her theatrical training, there is nothing stagy about Streep's performance in Kramer vs. Kramer. Emotions play across her face as subtly as breezes ruffling a pond; rarely have the varieties of anguish and uncertainty been so thoroughly catalogued through look and gesture. Streep's understated suffering rescues the character of Joanna Kramer from a virtually no-win plot: bad enough that a mother should leave her young child and then disappear from the film for nearly an hour; worse still that she come back and try to break up the new life that her husband...
DIED. Robert Boulin, 59, French Minister of Labor recently implicated by the press in a 1974 real estate scandal; after swallowing an overdose of barbiturates and drowning in a pond in the Rambouillet Forest, southwest of Paris. Boulin was the minister of longest record, having served all three governments of the Fifth Republic in nine different Cabinet posts in 15 years. A respected labor negotiator, he was rumored to have been a likely successor to the unpopular French Prime Minister, Raymond Barre. Initial speculation that Boulin was driven to suicide by published accounts of his alleged misconduct triggered a flurry...
Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Anti-nuclear Alliance leafletted all of Fresh Pond (Ward 11) last week and plan to work at polling sites near the University on election day, Charles E. Lewis '82, the alliance's University organizer, says...