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...white, had represented Scale previously. "If Hoffman knew anything about the Panthers," says Professor Harry Kalvin Jr. of the University of Chicago Law School, "he would have understood that Garry is the only lawyer that Scale trusts, and therefore that his request for a postponement was not just a stunt to delay the trial." In Garry's absence, adds Professor Abraham Goldstein of Yale Law School, Hoffman should have allowed Scale to act as his own counsel and to personally cross-examine witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Contempt in Chicago | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...GYPSY MOTHS. Director John Frankenheimer once more brings courage to the fore in this tale of three stunt parachutists bound together by danger. The story bogs down somewhat in heavyhanded philosophy, but Frankenheimer manages to pull the rip cord in time with a brilliant skydiving sequence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...GYPSY MOTHS. Director John Frankenheimer once more brings courage to the fore in this tale of three stunt parachutists bound together by danger. The story bogs down somewhat in heavy-handed philosophy, but Frankenheimer manages to pull the rip cord in time with a brilliant skydiving sequence that makes the moviegoer's time well spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 17, 1969 | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...would believe that when Movie Stars Jason Briar and Monica Ploy went on their publicity-stunt retreat in an abandoned abbey on the California coast they were nearly eaten by a scaly sea monster? Gossip Columnist Harriet Troom would, but then she actually was eaten by the monster when she sought out Jason and Monica for an exclusive. And who would believe that? Nobody, but the whole satirical fantasia on the Burton-Taylor legend in Harvey Jacobs' story In Seclusion is so funny that it doesn't matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nightclub of the Mind | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...Lampoon took advantage of the pleasant situation to issue the first local parody. Aided by a traitorous Crimed, the funnymen put out a spurious issue announcing, among other things, that the fat CRIMSON would give a $1 rebate to all subscribers who called at the office. The stunt left a good deal of hard feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History of the Crimson Survival, Solvency, and, Once in a While, Something Serious to Editorialize About | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

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