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...page complaint from the Securities and Exchange Commission was written in the usual dry legalese. But the bare facts that it laid out would make a fitting plot for J.R. and his cronies. The former chief executive of a $4 billion Dallas-based conglomerate, 64, has a "private personal relationship" with a company receptionist and provides her with "monetary support." He shares "lunches, dinners, trips, vacations, and social gatherings" with a small circle of high-living Southerners and their women friends. Generously, but illegally, he also shares stock tips worth $1.9 million with his friends...
Perhaps the best example of Orwell's complaint lies in the public statements of our present Administration. Besides the fact that our President may well be the most illiterate man in America today--have you ever noticed the amount of effort it takes to reconstruct his sentences--his government is disconcertingly inept at saying anything clearly. But the dangerous truth behind Mr. Reagan's statements is not his careless sentences, but his careless thoughts...
...become national figures must be glib enough to operate under what Russell Baker calls "television's refusal to allow thought before speech." Even those who scorn publicity usually pursue it when they have a book or film to promote. Goodbye, Columbus made Philip Roth known; Portnoy's Complaint made him a celebrity. When a new novel appears, Roth unbends a little, but, as he told PEOPLE magazine, he dislikes questions about home, the family, marriage: "I've spent years trying to get it right in fiction, and I don't propose to get it wrong...
...supply a list of her customers, "destroy all the packaging" and "pay over to us the profits." Grey, who says that Campbell is "barking up the wrong tree," sued the company in a Los Angeles federal court for interfering with her enterprise. Campbell countersued, and Grey filed an additional complaint with a California state judge. The courts are scheduled to take up the case of the canine candy this month...
...Steel is once again protesting about imports. Only this time the object of the complaint comes from a different direction. The battered industry, which lost $3.2 billion during 1982, had been feeling somewhat buoyed earlier this year. In October 1982, the Government had persuaded the European Community, one of the heaviest shippers of steel to the U.S., to hold back exports for a while. The other big exporter, Japan, had been voluntarily restricting sales. The results were dramatic. In the first nine months of this year, Japan reduced shipments to the U.S. by 35% compared with the same period last...