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Three years ago, Associate Editor Gerald Clarke attended a sneak movie preview in San Francisco with hundreds of screaming children, a few science-fiction buffs and the creator of the film in question, George Lucas. Clarke emerged from the theater to urge that TIME'S editors schedule a major story about "a movie you have to love." Clarke's article appeared soon after, previewing a film that was to receive a tidal wave of national attention: Star Wars, the fun-and-fantasy space opera that became the most financially successful motion picture ever made...
...departure would also complicate diplomatic efforts to free the 50 Americans held hostage by militants at the U.S. embassy. The day before the Shah's flight, Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh accused former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller of trying to sneak the Shah out of Panama so he could escape extradition. That would have "a disastrous effect in Iran," he said, and would delay the freeing of the hostages...
...Harvard players almost tarnished their co-captains' finale by allowing the Huskies to sneak back into the game with 30 seconds left. Crimson center Elaine Holpuch had put Harvard up 66-61 at the one minute mark with a tough inside bucket, but Huskie forward Beth Vinson answered with a slashing drive to bring her team within three...
...made for a future meeting in Geneva, which Wallraff does not intend to keep. Soon he will emerge again into the public eye armed with enough evidence to force Spinola's expulsion from Switzerland, an investigation of the right-wing politician Franz-Josef Strauss, who had been preparing to sneak Spinola into Germany, and the failure of General Spinola's attempt to take over Portugal...
Harvard blew a 40-25 halftime lead, and almost let Bentley sneak away with the win. Bentley capitalized on the Crimson's sloppy play to tie the score and then take the lead with only seconds remaining in regulation time...