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...magazine. Most of the sellers were charged with selling "obscene literature." Curiously, the policemen increased their harassment while a spate of court cases to decide the extent of Avatar's social disutility was still pending. Actually, given their past performances, it is unlikely that the higher courts of the Commonwealth, much less the U.S. Supreme Court, would ever bar the frank, satirical publication. Were the courts to prove so prissy, such a decision would be contemptible anyway; Avatar is every bit as meaningful for disenchanted students, as, say, Foreign Affairs is for Washington policy-makers. And there...
Curran emphasized that the form-card-operation system does not interfere with funerals and autopsies. In the case of homicide victims, a coroner would be called before the surgery. Final decisions in these cases, he said, would be left to the Commonwealth or next...
...Degree. Along with Sunset, Commonwealth acquired its president, A. (for Austin) Bruce Rozet, 39, and this week it expects to elect him its own $60,000-a-year president and chief executive officer. Against overwhelming odds, Rozet over the past year has steered Sunset away from impending financial disaster. "We're taking our licks publicly," he said not long ago. "We have moved from the nth degree of impossibility as a company to a couple of degrees away from real possibilities...
...worth. That netted Sunset a mere $300,000 above the $5,700,000 debt on the properties involved. But the company still had some useful assets, including profitable gas and oil wells, a thriving residential project near San Diego and $17 million worth of losses on its books that Commonwealth can carry forward to reduce its income tax liability on future profits...
With Sunset thankfully stripped of most of its money-losing ventures, Commonwealth is eagerly looking ahead to expansion in oil, motion pictures and service industries for its next growth. As a start, the company agreed last month to buy Hollywood's Television Enterprises Corp., a privately owned maker of low-budget films. Since the divorce plan was divulged, Sunasco shares have gone from a December low of $7.63 on the New York Stock Exchange to $9.38 last week. For sheer corporate melodrama, Rozet's rescue might make a film itself...