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...make sure that witnesses' testimony was on the record, a federal judge approved a plan to video-tape a description of the murders by Underbill and Leon Walters, a former Green Beret who had also worked for Thevis. But before that could be done, both men were killed by shotgun blasts. Officials in Washington suspect the Mafia arranged the murder as a favor to Thevis: they believe he sold his porno operation to the Mob this fall. But Atlanta FBI agents disagree. In four previous attempts to kill Underbill, said an official, the suspected hit men were "redneck bank...
...laughing matter. We may also be in for even more political show business. Image was not everything, but it was bigger than ever, a thought Jimmy Carter enlarged once he got in the White House. Tote bags, T shirts, red vests, scissors to cut red tape, calluses from work, playing a corpse in a college play, sliding down a fire pole-all were margins used by individual candidates in last week's relentless victories. Gerry Sikorski, the fellow who plastered red and blue signs on nearly every fence post and telephone pole along the two-lane highways...
Both have a penchant for writing and seeing the world, so Author James Michener and Karol Cardinal Wojtyla got along just fine. The meeting, which took place last July in the Cardinal's garden in Cracow, was to tape a segment of James Michener's World, an eight-part PBS special, narrated by Michener. After finishing the segment, entitled Poland...
Gene splicing is a technique for recombining genetic material in which the tape is DNA, a molecule which codes in a four-letter alphabet for the various proteins which are vital for the, functioning of every cell. Researchers use a chemical scalpel--restriction enzymes--which attack DNA at specific sites, breaking it and exposing two "sticky" ends to which a new piece of DNA--a gene--can be attached...
Eventually Haley started carrying a tape recorder around with him at all times to dictate his family tales. Within six weeks he piled up more than 800 pages of transcript. From this raw material, Writer Ernest Kinoy and Producer Stan Margulies constructed a plot that chronicles Haley's family from 1882 to 1965. Roots 2 opens in Henning, Tenn., where Chicken George settled the family at the end of Roots 1. The show's climax will dramatize Haley's arrival in Gambia to search for traces of his African forebear, Kunta Kinte. Along the way, Roots...