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Still, things could have been worse. Warner's production chief, John Calley, was always tolerant. "It would make no sense to tell Kubrick, 'O.K., fella, you've got one more week to finish the thing,' " he says. "What you would get then is a mediocre film that cost say, $8 million, instead of a masterpiece that cost $11 million. When somebody is spending a lot of your money, you are wise to give him time to do the job right...
With a scathing denunciation of "massive adverse pretrial publicity," Federal Judge J. Robert Elliott last September threw out Army Lieut. William Calley's conviction for his part in the 1968 My Lai massacre. Last week 13 judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Elliott's conclusion about news coverage. Otherwise, wrote Judge Robert A. Ainsworth Jr., "the inevitable results would be that truly heinous or notorious acts would go unpunished." Besides, he added, the members of the Calley court-martial panel were scrupulously examined for their ability to be fair and open-minded. Five appeals...
...each case, under different pressures, Americans in uniform used "excessive force"-a legalistic euphemism often used to describe official killing. Yet the legal system has had great difficulty in pinpointing responsibility. In all three celebrated cases, the only man convicted of criminal conduct was Lieut. William Calley, who served just 40 months for the My Lai massacre, mostly under comfortable house arrest. Last week, what may be the final legal action against any officials in the three incidents ended in a Cleveland courtroom. The record of absolving representatives of the state did not change...
...Charles Manson, Lieut, William Calley, Richard "Chicago Nurse" Speck. Charles "Texas Tower" Whitman, and Albert "Boston Strangler" DeSolve...
...conveniently pre-stamped postcards distributed by the Senior Class Committee, seniors can recommend as many alternatives to Allen and Calley as they can think of. Word is that Mel Brooks and Hunter Thompson are currently leading the list. Like last year's L.F. Stone, if he showed up. Thompson would probably give an interesting speech. But since Thompson might also be comatose from Ibogaine, seniors might want to consider other possibilities as well. For example, they might recommend Fidel Castro, who startled the diplomatic world during his last visit to the United States by staying in a Harlem hotel instead...