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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quickly gained control of more than a dozen companies, including a brokerage firm, electronics and real estate interests, and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Guterma was convicted in 1960 of fraud, conspiracy and failing to register as an agent of Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, who gave him $750,000 to churn out propaganda in the U.S. After 3½ years in jail, he amassed a second empire in cosmetics, real estate and a Kentucky coal company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 18, 1977 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...Colson, Dean, Magruder and, eventually Nixon. So Tony Hiss '63 does us all a service with his bittersweet offering Laughing Last, a readable and engaging biography (if it can be classified as such) of his father, Alger Hiss. While the Nixon gang and assorted witnesses and prosecutors continue to churn out bestsellers, this slim volume may be lost in the flood tide of confessions, which is a shame, because Hiss brings a great deal of honest emotion and reflection to his subject, a claim his competitors hardly can make...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: From a Son's Point of View | 2/22/1977 | See Source »

Despite Zappa's undeniably brilliant musical abilities--now, he's even into producing, having helped churn out the latest Grand Funk Railroad offering--he's still haunted by a past he largely denies...

Author: By Rich Weisman, | Title: Oh, Frankie...! | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...Pretty Polly.) For the most part, that is just as well. No other region of the world produces such a concoction of Kung Fu, scifi, porn, soapers, chasers and period pieces with such uneven degrees of tackiness and brilliance. From India to Japan, the film studios of Asia churn out more than 1,200 pictures a year, the work of moguls like Hong Kong's Run Run Shaw (see box) and one-shot entrepreneurs and ephemeral actors. A survey of the state of the industry in Asia's major countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Asia's Bouncing World of Movies | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...Times Book Review, which they all read and despise for its pre-eminence, and are out to show that the alternative establishment, like the Real Paper and the Phoenix, that journalists aren't the only writers around. Members of the project's organizing board assured me that you can churn good copy out of garages, on the run or, as somebody's voice kept hissing, off of a porch. The problem is how to distribute...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Odds & Ends | 5/6/1976 | See Source »

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