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Remember when being charged with child molestation was a bad thing? In a spectacle that even hardened TV-news commentators described as a freak show, pop star MICHAEL JACKSON appeared in a Santa Maria, Calif., court to plead not guilty to seven counts of lewd acts with a child and two counts of giving intoxicants to a child. Outside, hundreds of fans--some of whom arrived on buses chartered by Jacko's camp--screamed their support while Jackson's bodyguards handed out invitations to the star's Neverland Ranch for postarraignment festivities. Later, Jackson climbed onto the roof...
DIED. HOPE LANGE, 70, film, stage and television actress who won an Oscar nomination for her performance as a troubled teenage girl in the 1957 movie soap opera Peyton Place; of an intestinal infection; in Santa Monica, Calif. Her blond beauty once rankled Marilyn Monroe (before letting Lange appear alongside her in Bus Stop, Monroe demanded that Lange's hair be dyed brown) and won her parts in such 1950s films as The Young Lions. But she was better known for her matronly, Emmy-winning role as a widow living in a haunted seaside home in TV's The Ghost...
...INDICATORS The Santa Effect? A closely watched index of U.S. manufacturing activity showed the sector leapt to its highest level in 20 years last December, maintaining growth for the sixth straight month...
CHARGED. MICHAEL JACKSON, 45, eccentric pop star; with seven counts involving a lewd and lascivious act upon a child and two counts of administering an "intoxicating agent," in connection with allegations that he molested a cancer-stricken boy, now 14, in February and March; in Santa Maria, Calif. Jackson could face more than 20 years in prison if convicted on all counts of molestation...
...actress who co-starred in such films as A Letter to Three Wives and Cheaper by the Dozen and was nominated for an Oscar for her starring role in 1949's Pinky, in which she portrayed a black woman passing for white; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...