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...Civic Center last week was a starry burst of altruism: the $148,000 in concert receipts went into municipal coffers drained by the costs of investigating the murders of 20 black children. Halfway through the three-hour benefit -in which Native Georgian Burt Reynolds and Singer Roberta Flack appeared-Sinatra declared his "sadness and love" for Atlantans "frightened by day and doubly frightened by night." Furthermore, Sinatra assured his audience of 4,600, "honorable people still outnumber dishonorable deeds...
...Robert J. Hernandez--defense attorney for most of the group, four chose to represent themselves- said after the arraignment that he would begin proceedings to get the charges dismissed before February 12, the date set for the trial. Calling the charge "flack and without meaning," Hernandez expressed optimism that he would succeed and claimed that the law was on the demonstrators' side...
...started hanging out in front of the building, waiting for Lennon like any other fan. There were usually fans at the gates of the Dakota, a grand, gloomy, high-maintenance Gothic fortress overlooking the west side of Central Park, because the building houses several celebrities: Lauren Bacall, Roberta Flack, Leonard Bernstein. Fans of the Beatles and Lennon lovers accounted for conversation with
Automen have no firm explanation for the renewed popularity of the cars, which has taken off at a gallop over the past 16 months. But one reason may be nostalgia. When the first Mustang was unveiled in April 1964 at the New York World's Fair, a Ford flack said that its name was chosen because it sounded "American as all hell." Lyndon Johnson had just pushed through tax cuts, the dark days of Viet Nam were still far over the horizon, and the post-World War II baby boom made people under 25 almost as numerous as their...
...says Comic Steve Martin. So, Martin has taped All Commercials, an NBC special set to air in September. Among the products he plugs: Truman Capote jeans, the Just a Second Honey bra and Mount St. Helens laxative. But his favorite bit is a tribute to Morris the Cat, finicky flack for feline food. "He and I were quite close. His death came as a real shock," Martin confides. "I want to show the real Morris, the private Morris." For this, he boasts, he is purrfect: "People who knew him and who have seen me in my Morris costume have found...