Page Two h THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, December 6, 1972 HALF-MILLION TO WATCH Last Apollo mission set to ihft-off CAPE KENNEDY (MP) - Apol- lo 17, perhap's man's last visit to the moon for decades, is ready to blast off tonight on Amer-. ica's = most spectacular manned space launching. The smoothest countdown in Apollo history ticked flawlessly toward a 9:53 p.m. EST liftoff in the first afterdark launching of a U.S. manned flight, a fiery event expected to draw half a million visitors to the Cape Ken- nedy area. Astronauts Eugene Cernan, geologist Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans have completed 16 months of training for the final and most ambitious of the Apol- los. For the last Apollo, NASA has selected a scientifically intrigu- Nation's prosecutors want death penalty CORONADO, Calif. UP) - Nearly "I think it's very likely that the all of the nation's state attorneys death penalty will be restored on a general want the death penalty to state-by-state basis within 1 to at least be available, says the two years," Atty. Gen. Gary Nel- chairman of a committee drafting son said in an interview. proposals to reinstate capital pun- Derryberry said eight or 10 ishment. states now prohibit all capital pun- Proposed laws to reimpose capi- ishment, but "we think even those tal punishmentiare being prepared states would favor the availability for consideration at the winter }of it." ing site named Taurus-Littrow as the landing site for Cernan and Schmitt. They are to guide the spindley legged Challenger to a touch- down in a three-mile long vol- canic valley which Cernan terms "box canyon" because it is ring- ed by mountains rising up to 7,000 feet. With zero hour approaching, the pace quickened at the launch pad as crews worked to prepare 'the Saturn S rocket, the com- mand ship America a n d t h e lunar ship Challenger. Flight batteries were activated, fuel cells serviced, tanks pres- surized, and food and equipment stowed aboard the spaceships. Five tiny mice, packed in a seal- ed container, were put aboard in an experiment to determine the affects of cosmic rays on brain tissue. The rodents - five tiny mice who'll give their lives for sci- ence s came aboard in individual tubes inside a sealed alumnum canister. They'll ride in the com- mand ship America with Evans around the moon. Experimenters implanted waf- er-like cosmic ray detectors tin- der the skulls of the mice. Back on earth, the tiny natives of the California desert will be killed and their pea-sized brains exam- ined to determine how cosmic ra- diation has affected brain tissue. That experiment looks to the tonight five-county area will work through their days off and extra shifts to handle the crowds jam- ming U.S. Highway 1 and other major roadways. Floodlights attached to port- able generators will illuminate dark intersections in key areas around Cocoa Beach which will also be manned by traffic cops decked out in flourescent orange clothing. Civil Defense, Red Cross, Sal- vation Army, civilian volunteers and various police and fire agen- cies have combined to draw up a master plan for people control. The distinguished visitor list has been growing daily and in- cludes such people as Charlie Smith, the 130-year-old f o r in e r slave who claims to be the coun- try's oldest citizen and s t i l l doubts man can walk on the moon, and Vice President Spiro Agnew, a personal friend of Cer- nan s. AA CIVIC THEATRE AUDITIONS FOR "THIEVE'S CARNIVAL" DEC. 5, 6, 7 7:30 P.M. AACT BLDG.- 201 West Mulholland (off W. 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SHOWS AT -3-57- WORLD PREMIER In July of 1969 John Sinclair was sentenced to 91/2-10 years in prison for possession of two joints of marijuana. Two-and-a-half years later, on December 10, 1971, after innumerable attempts to gain John's freedom through the courts had met with failure, the Rainbow People's Party organized a massive Freedom Rally for John Sinclair at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Fifteen thousand people came to Crisler that night to join with a star-studded cast of dozens of musicians and political organizers to protest this enormous injustice. Three days later John Sin- clair was released from prison. "TEN FOR TWO" is a record of that historic event, featuring the performers who made it all possible. SUNDAY, December 10 4 SHOWS-1 DAY ONLY FIFr-TH FORUM 5th at Liberty Ann Arbor Continuous from 5 p m. Adm. $2.50 Benefit for Rainbow People s Party and Rainbow Multi-Media Advance tickets at Salvation NOW! Call 761 -9706 for informationJ _____ ____ ____ ____WED. 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Glenda Jackson (Academy Award: Best Actress), Oliver Reed, & Alan Bates in Ken Russell's WOMEN In LOVE THE MOVIE industry has a ten- Tdency to take a beautiful piece of literature and destroy its inti- macy by splashing it across the s c r e e n. Occasionally a miracle occurs and a conscientious direc- tor is able to admirably translate an author's work. Such is the case of Women in Love, the movie ver- sion of D. H. Lawrence's sensual novel directed by Ken Russell. Lawrence is a most gifted writer with a style that typifies great literature . . . It is a frightful task for a di- rector to even attempt to present some semblance of such a com- plex writer, but Russell has an- swered the call and performed magnificently. He displays a sen- sitive understanding of the strong personal relationships which are at the center of Lawrence's writ- ing and unveils the elegance of his colorful prose. with the aid of script writer Larry Kramer, Russell exposes the intensity and passion of Lawrence's novel . . . The casting is excellent. Oliver Reed (Gerald) and Jenny Linden (Ursula), even though she re- sembles Debbie Reynolds, are good. Alan Bates, as Birkin, Lawrence's alter-ego in the book, looks like a well-fed Lawrence. But, the best performance is by Glenda Jackson (Gudrun) who is superb as the character who represents Law- rence's anti-feminist view . . . If you can accept this film for how well it handles what it does in the allotted time, and not con- demn it for what it misses it is a truly great film; and as good a rendition of a novel as can be ex- pected. Granted it could never be as good as the original work, but it is a marvelous film, well worth seeing, and hopefully it will in- spire you to read the book, if you already haven't. -Donald Kubit, The Mich. Daily (Reprinted by permission of the author) TONIGHT!-Dec. 6th-LAST DAY ! 35mm Color 7 & 9:30 p.m. TOMORROW EVENING-Francois Truffaut's JULES AND JIM COMING TUESDAY-Animated Beatles in THE YELLOW SUBMARINE NEXT WEDNESDAY-Elliot Gould & Donald Sutherland in M*A*S*H ALL SHOWINGS IN AUDITORIUM "A," ANGELL HALL-$1 Tickets for all of each evening's performances on sale outside the auditorium at 6 p.m. 1 I i:/{.;. ';.; i;:;ii r.ti i "Y .tir :i:: f:4: '%:" ':i:%i?::%::%ii}::' :: rr F is n, AFTER A GREAT SUMMER '72 STUDENTS ABROAD I Proudly Announces 1973 Summer Study Programs Their From $710 ALL INCLUDED) PARIS: FRENCH LANGUAGE AND * CIVILIZATION-SORBONNE. 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