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...Clem Bertrand." In a brief note in the Warren Commission exhibits, a "Clay Bertrand" was named as the man who phoned an attorney on the day after the assassination and asked him to defend Oswald. Was Bertrand in the court room? Garrison asked Russo. Without a word, the witness strode melodramatically to Clay Shaw and held his right hand above Shaw's head. Shaw did not look...
Each time the judge strode into the court, the dark-haired defendant bowed respectfully in best Canadian courtroom tradition. Viola MacMillan, 63, has had occasion of late to learn about such legal amenities. A shrewd, if unlikely-looking prospector who amassed a fortune in sundry Canadian mining ventures, tiny (5 ft., 100 Ibs.) Viola has been under government investigation ever since a mercurial trading binge on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1964 left investors in her Windfall Oils & Mines Ltd. holding an empty sack. Called "the Queen Bee" by mining men, who elected her president of the Prospectors and Developers...
Then Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) strode up to the orchestra leader. "Play La Marseillaise," he said. "Play it." The orchestra leader looked to Rick (Humphrey Bogart). Rick nodded imperceptibly...
...time for the first immolations drew near, chains were made ready to hold the martyrs in the flames, and many of the 2,000 Sikhs in the temple compound began to weep. Then, with only 30 minutes left, the speaker of the lower house of Parliament strode dramatically into the compound. Himself a Sikh, Speaker Sardar Hukam Singh announced that he brought new proposals from Indira Gandhi for a settlement...
...PROFESSIONALS. Director Richard Brooks pumps this fast-moving western full of high-gauge performances, guts, ingenuity, flaming arrows, dynamite and hot lead. The action starts when, for $10,000 apiece, Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan set out to return a kidnaped wife (Claudia Cardinale) to her husband...