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...Texas-based Vernon Savings and Loan, in which regulators charge that top officials have looted the S and L for their own gain, former Senior Vice President John Hill, 40, pleaded guilty in March to a single count of conspiracy. According to court papers, Hill had arranged "paid female companionship" at a 1985 company board meeting in Solana Beach, Calif., by flying in two prostitutes from Dallas and hiring as many as ten others locally. Vernon Savings picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Rob Banks Without a Gun | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...young woman compromises and cheapens herself by openly lending herself to the companionship of young men, with all that implies. Boys pretend to scoff at such things but I don't think they really do--they like us to be pure and at their mercy or else whores who needn't trouble their consciences. But whores at least get paid...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: From `A' to `S': What's in a Letter? | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

...fact, her husband is a good man, and she hardly has a thought to spare for Florentino and his blighted life. For his part, Florentino resolves to keep himself spiritually pure for the moment when he will, someday, possess Fermina; in the meantime, he consoles himself with the physical companionship of women in order to learn more about his beloved. He writes down his impressions and amasses "some 25 notebooks, with 622 entries of long-term liaisons, apart from the countless fleeting adventures that did ^ not even deserve a charitable note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Half-Century of Solitude LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Caro Quintero and Fonseca, imprisoned in 1985 for drug trafficking, are currently inmates of Mexico City's Reclusorio del Norte. But according to DEA agents who have visited the facility, their amenities there include private cooks, female companionship, liquor, access to a telephone and a Jacuzzi. Last summer the U.S. team that keeps an eye on the drug barons prevented them from getting the ultimate amenity: a private exit. The agents discovered a tunnel leading 800 ft. from two abandoned houses across from the prison toward their cellblock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America Flames of Anger | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...half brothers, Theo, 28, and Rafe, 26, all of them behaving incorrigibly in character and thereby reminding Clare of why she had left them and the South in the first place. Her only respite from what she calls "the ongoing theatricals of the family" is the companionship of her childhood friend Julia Richardson. Years earlier, Julia gave up a promising career as a historian and returned to Mountain City to teach in the local college, take care of her dying mother and then look after her father. These two women manifest the attraction of opposites. Clare has apparently broken free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polite Forms of Aggression A SOUTHERN FAMILY | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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