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Judge James P. McGuire interviewed 27 jury candidates to select the last six jurors for the trial. Of those six, two indicated they could support abortion, three said they had no opinion on the question, and one said he was "against" abortion...
...Norman Mailer was the first journalist/novelist, Abe is the first photonovelist (he has graced The Box Man with nine of his own photos), equipped wherever he goes with a periscope-like camera and tape recorder. And, while he is one of the select few to be translated into English, Abe the technocrat and his box man narrator--both hopelessly intertwined--are the epitome of the man in the house with one-way windows. Abe's cold, logical precision is the summation of all the statistics that point toward Japan's industrial and cultural decline...
Gorski, who is 34 years old, assumed his duties January 2. A select committee chaired by Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for administration, chose him for the post in November...
...Valery Giscard d'Estaing in an upbeat mood. While reducing differences on their approaches to dealing with the oil cartel, the two leaders also defrosted Franco-American relations a bit. At home, the Administration's energy experts finally completed the package of options from which Ford must select hard choices (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Rumsfeld finished work on a White House staff overhaul ("It's pure Jerry Ford," he said). And, at long last, a glaring void was filled when Nelson Rockefeller was confirmed and sworn in as Vice President...
SCAPINO. The incredibly nimble Jim Dale joins that select pantheon of comic agility, men like Bobby Clark, Bert Lahr, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, who clowned in flawless body English...