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...become a star in French New Wave films such as Breathless after her amateurish performance in Saint Joan made her name a synonym for miscasting in the U.S. The report was picked up by Newsweek, a French publication, Minute, and American Weekly, a former Hearst newspaper supplement. Soon after reading the account, Seberg, who by then was seven months pregnant, went into labor and three days later gave birth to a dead baby, a white female...
...more information on a particular area is needed, aircraft can be called upon to supplement the satellite. The needle-sleek Lockheed SR-71 (Blackbird), which flies more than three times as fast as sound at above 85,000 ft., makes occasional photo-reconnaissance runs over Cuba. The old standby, the, U2, also goes on photographic and electronic "ferreting" missions, but it remains almost 20 miles high and well outside Cuban airspace to keep from being shot down...
...French. There followed a period in which, as Hone prudishly puts it, she "realized the promises of physical sensuality." After two failed love affairs and an illegitimate son (whom she placed with a country cousin), Sayers married Atherton Fleming, a badly wounded war veteran. She wrote detective novels to supplement her income from an advertising job, but quickly determined to make the genre "become once more a novel of manners instead of a pure crossword puzzle...
...arrival on the moon. These twin aerospace milestones are the subject of this week's cover story, which also looks toward the uncertain but potentially dazzling future of the U.S. space program. To see further ahead, TIME commissioned Science Author and Visionary Arthur C. Clarke to supplement the story with his view of man's long-term prospects in space...
...Tories will trim $3 billion from the Labor government's last budget, including aid to local governments for public housing and other programs. But Thatcher's Social Services Secretary, Patrick Jenkin, later offered a supplement to the budget that provided unexpectedly large increases in such personal benefits as old age pensions and maternity allowances. That calculated benevolence may not be of much help to many Britons as they try to cope with a new round of inflation...