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Throughout the week's proceedings, Ellsberg's chief counsel, Leonard Boudin, 60, also showed wear. Though a veteran of the trials of Dr. Benjamin Spock and the Rev. Philip Berrigan, Boudin has always been more at home with appellate procedures than in trial law, and he faltered in his questioning, so much so that Judge William Matthew Byrne himself frequently took up the line of inquiry. Reliant on a heart pacemaker, Boudin finally was ordered to rest by his doctor. The proceedings were suspended until this week, when Ellsberg is expected to take the stand again...
...Waspish Captain Kirk, played in a father-like manner by William Shatner; communications expert Uhura portrayed by the black and beautiful Nichele Nichols; Sulu, the oriental helmsman played by Walter Koenig; Dr. McCoy, the pacifist, depicted by DeForest Kelley; and of course the one and only Mr. Spock, half-Vulcan and half-human, portrayed by Leonard Nimoy. The crew becomes involved in a variety of intriguing tales, all of which make some comment on today's society. The shows deal with everything from sex to war, from racism to religion...
TRADE IN Star Trek memorabilia is brisk, and even the Smithsonian Institute has gotten into the game, securing a copy of the pilot show and several props. For the noninstitutional collector-investor, film clips are highly popular and those showing the usually stoic Mr. Spock smiling are worth their weight in Martian gold. (Publicity photos are also popular, but some of the more ambitious fans photograph the show for themselves while it's on their television screens. Another big seller is sound recordings of the show, and Trekies have been known to memorize entire scripts. Most popular, however...
...appeal to a higher court -but it was certainly noteworthy for its literary style. Although the judge found the film had "no idea worthy of protection," he did feel it to be worth 35 pages of outraged opinion, salted with quotes from Margaret Mead, D.H. Lawrence and Dr. Benjamin Spock, condemning in detail each one of the film's 62 minutes. The film's heroine, he noted, demonstrated a "swordswal-lower's fascinating faculty for fellatio," and camera angles were "directed toward maximum exposure...during the gymnastics, gyrations, bobbing, trundling, surging, ebb and flowing, eddying, moaning, groaning...
Young adults are particularly choosy; many have little interest in the grinding routine of the assembly line or in automated clerical tasks like operating an addressing machine or processing a payroll. The nation's 22.5 million workers under 30, nursed on television and still showing their Spock marks, may in fact be too educated, too expectant and too anti-authoritarian for many of the jobs that the economy offers them. Affluence, the new rise in hedonism, and the antimaterialistic notions expressed in Charles Reich's The Greening of America have turned many young people against their parents...