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John Bynoe, director of the regional office of HEW, said that no institution will actually lose its Federal funds. Rather, he explained, an institution failing to comply with government standards may be deemed a "non-cooperative contractor" and may be heavily pressured to produce an acceptable affirmative action plan when its Federal contracts near expiration and come up for renewal...
...Nelson Gross, former State Treasurer Joseph M. McCrane and former Secretary of State Paul J. Sherwin. Gross and McCrane were indicted for advising fat-cat contributors to write off their campaign contributions on their tax returns as business expenses. Sherwin was convicted for seeking a kickback from a highway contractor...
...Philip Berrigan is a dashing, ruggedly handsome man whose huge ebullience rarely fails to infect those he meets. Elizabeth McAlister-one of twin daughters among the nine children of an immigrant Irish contractor-became a nun in 1959 while she was still in college, but went on studying to get a master's degree in art history. At 33 she is a bit more subdued than in her breathless revolutionary days before the Harrisburg trial. A few years ago, when her community shifted from long religious habit to optional civilian clothes, both Phil Berrigan and her sister nuns used...
Poor Conduce Mossier Garrison just seems to attract trouble. Nine years ago, her second husband, Multimillionaire Jacques Mossler, 69, was murdered, and she had to suffer through a trial before being acquitted of the crime. Then there was that bad three-story fall taken by her third husband, Electrical Contractor Barnett Garrison, whom the butler found outside their Houston mansion lying in a pool of blood. Garrison is still recovering and was not around for his wife's latest escapade. An intruder who apparently had a key to her Miami Beach hotel room threatened to strangle...
...still has to prove his worth to Sham and his trainer, Frank ("Pancho") Martin. Before the Wood, Martin brazenly and unsuccessfully offered any takers the opportunity to bet $5,000 against his horse in a head-to-head contest with Secretariat. A Cuban who trains Sham for New York Contractor Sigmund Sommer, Martin is banking on the fact that no son of Bold Ruler has ever won a Derby, or any Triple Crown race for that matter. The Derby distance of 1¼ miles is too great, some believe, for Bold Ruler's progeny. And if Sham...