Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year criminal record, who in 1974 had fled a New Jersey prison farm, where he was serving a sentence for a commodities scam. Officials say that Lloyd, Carr may have swindled investors out of as much as $75 million over the past 18 months. Investigators found that one escrow account in a Boston bank supposed to contain $3.6 million to safeguard clients' funds contained only $200. Massachusetts authorities believe the total siphoned off in their state alone could reach $12 million...
...assailant had qualified, through an elaborate point system, for special treatment under Boston's Major Violators program. It is hardly news in the U.S. that industrious malefactors, variously known as revolving-door or career criminals, commit crime after crime, year after year. About 7% of arrested suspects account for a quarter or more of the nation's crime. The first wholesale attack on the problem began only three years ago, when 24 cities, with federal funds and a good idea, both provided by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, began establishing career-criminal prosecution units. The aim: first identify...
...disclosure that David Begelman, 56, the powerful, wheeler-dealer president of Columbia Pictures' film and television divisions, had ripped off his studio to the tune of $61,008; he had forged checks in the name of Robertson and others and had padded his cushiony expense account by an additional $23,000. Begelman, when found out, admitted his guilt. In almost any other industry, a company executive caught with his hand in the till would be abruptly dismissed. Not so, apparently, in Hollywood. Begelman, who submitted himself to psychiatric care, was simply suspended. After his analyst announced a cure, Begelman...
...author's account of angst inside the Met makes one wonder how anyone could endure the general manager's job. A perennial No. 2 man by his own testimony, Chapin acceded to the post when Goeran Gentele, the Swedish impresario who succeeded Rudolf Bing in 1972, was killed in an automobile accident. Chapin had enemies as well as friends on the Met's faction-ridden board of directors, and he was eased out in June 1975. The Met decided to abolish the job of general manager and substitute a conglomerate-style troika: executive director (Anthony A. Bliss...
...arriving at a lower frequency. Or it might be "stretched" toward the red by the strong gravitational field of the quasar. Another possibility: maybe quasars have been exploded out of nearby galaxies at great velocities. Any of these explanations could leave the quasars near enough to the earth to account for their observed brightness, and at the same time give them their enormous red shifts. But are any of these theories right...