Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Married. Lee Marvin, 46, Hollywood's master of violence (Point Blank) and comedy (Cat Ballon); and Pamela Feeley, 39, an old friend from Woodstock, N.Y., whom he has known for 25 years; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in a civil ceremony in Las Vegas...
...Tennessee schoolteacher and central figure in the celebrated 1925 "monkey trial"; of cancer; in Shreveport, La. Scopes challenged a state law forbidding the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution. The trial produced one of the great confrontations of U.S. legal history, pitting Clarence Darrow, the noted civil libertarian, against Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, famed as a fundamentalist orator and three-time Democratic presidential candidate. For eight days the two argued; in the end, a jury "unanimously hot for Genesis," as H.L. Mencken reported, found Scopes guilty, and the judge fined him $100. Tennessee did not repeal...
...decline. It was not until the '50s that he was rediscovered and merchandised in Ford commercials and films like Beach Blanket Bingo. Such travesties are happily omitted from the Rohauer restoration. Instead, there are the fabulous originals, now preserved on celluloid stock -works like The General, a Civil War comedy which could have been photographed by Mathew Brady, and the complex and hilarious Navigator, deservedly Keaton's biggest moneymaker...
...great idea as a stunt in civil disobedience. But as a book, the balloon does not hold up quite so well, though it may fascinate people who daydream about becoming system saboteurs. Author Hatch has helped his story by including a fine short course on the myths and truths about jet planes, their noise and their impact on human beings. One old saw neatly skewered: the aviation industry's contention that man can adjust to any noise level. That is simply medically false. In response to such facts, sufferers of noise pollution can only sound a loud "Hear! Hear...
...shed their Robin Hood image and wantonly murdered a political hostage. Canada was still tense following the brutal murder by fanatic Quebec separatists of a government official; a small band of terrorists, trying to blackmail the government, succeeded in frightening the entire country and forcing the suspension of some civil liberties...