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...Staff, military experts praised Nixon's choice and predicted that Abrams would win quick Senate approval and get on with the job. At 57, after a long and distinguished Army career, Abrams might normally have had the post almost by acclamation. But now, his appointment may have run afoul of election-year politics...
...courier who fell afoul of customs was Carole Dale Robinson, a 19-year-old model from San Francisco. She arrived at Mexico City airport last March clutching a stuffed toy llama from Peru. Customs officers split it open?and found 8 Ibs. of pure cocaine inside. She protested that she was merely carrying the toy as a favor for someone else, but in fact U.S. agents had been watching her since she left California. She is now awaiting sentence, which may run as high as seven years...
...athlete should be an example to youth." The U.S. Olympic Committee "would be wise" not to send the 21-year-old boxer, advised Daume, a successful industrialist who played basketball for Germany at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. If Hunter did turn up, Daume added, he might run afoul of an Olympic rule on housing. Implying that Hunter might need to be billeted in a local prison, Daume noted a requirement of the Games that competitors stay in the official Olympic Village...
...whole thing." Cook heads General Foods, which is having trouble digesting all that it has swallowed. Earlier this year General Foods wrote off a $47 million loss on Burger Chef Systems and Rix Systems, a pair of acquired hamburger and roast beef sandwich franchise operations that ran afoul of overcrowding in the fast-food business. As a result, one of the world's biggest processors of food (last year's sales: $2.3 billion from such household names as Maxwell House, JellO, Birds Eye and Gaines) is heading for its first earnings decline in 20 years. Figures...
Arranging academic calendars to permit campaigning for peace candidates would presumably run afoul of the code; few investment decisions are likely to. Even an expansive interpretation of "propaganda" or efforts to "influence legislation" would be circumscribed by the current Treasury regulations interpreting the exemption statute, which declare that...