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...gosh! No hermit he, but that former rebel general, Obi-wan Kenobi, for whom they had been looking. Together, the four of them are even now setting out to deliver the secret plans to rebel headquarters, light-years and parsecs away. But will they be in time to save the lovely Leia? And, anyway, what can a punk kid, a has-been general and a comedy team of robots do against the dark, illimitable powers of the Galactic Empire...
...their fruitless struggles in the industrial game, where the odds are all against them," he wrote later. The veracity with which his lens recorded the pinched, pale, grimy faces of breaker boys in a Pennsylvania coal mine, or the raw-fingered, oyster-shucking children of New England, or the wan cotton-mill girls against their enveloping perspectives of white bobbins, has not been equaled since...
...added: "I paid my price for Watergate in sorrow and lost, wasted years; in tragedy, ridicule and humiliation." The worst blow was the loss of his wife Dorothy, who was killed in a plane crash in 1972 while taking $10,000 in $100 bills to Chicago. Looking wan and thin, Hunt surfaced in Brookline, Mass., to consult with a booking agent about going on a lecture tour to make some money. He still owes a federal tax bill of about...
...Joke. For the defense, Longet -wan and wide-eyed and conservatively turned out in shirt and sweater-was her own best witness. She told the jurors that "Spider and I loved each other very much," an assertion that contradicted local gossip that their relationship was on the skids. The word was that Sabich had ordered Longet to leave because he was tired of her jealous, inhibiting manner. Prosecutor Anderson claimed to have a witness whom Spider had bet $100 that Longet would be gone by April, but he never produced...
Bukovsky, who has been the object of a worldwide campaign for his release, looked wan and ill after eleven years spent in Soviet jails, concentration camps and police-run lunatic asylums. "I am happy but not feeling well," he told reporters, holding up his wrists to show the marks left by handcuffs...