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...speaker was Giorgio Almirante, 58, the dapper chieftain of the far right, neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement (M.S.I.), the country's fourth largest political party. Two weeks ago, he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity by an overwhelming vote of his fellow members of the Chamber of Deputies, who were responding to a nationwide outcry against a wave of Fascist-inspired violence (TIME, May 21). As a result of the vote, Almirante may be tried for the constitutional crime of "reconstituting the Fascist Party." Possible sentence: three to twelve years in prison. Last week TIME Correspondent Jordan Bonfante interviewed...
...attorneys got into the act. McCord had said that his own lawyer for the Watergate trial, Gerald Alch, had advised him to claim that the break-in was a CIA operation. He said Alch also suggested that CIA documents could be forged to support this defense. Alch, as dapper as he was indignant, demanded the right to make a lengthy rebuttal and to impugn McCord's testimony. He said he had asked McCord's present attorney, Bernard Fensterwald Jr., why his client had made such a charge. Replied Fensterwald: "I can only hazard the guess that...
...slow down," said Si Chung Lo, 37, a short and dapper freighter captain from Hong Kong. "You're inviting them to shoot...
...figure is Vesco, a dapper mystery man who will turn 37 this week. The engineer son of a Detroit auto worker, Vesco appeared on the financial scene out of nowhere in 1965 to create by merger International Controls Corp., a New Jersey electric equipment company, which he once said he had built "on financial agility." He entered IOS in 1970 in the role of savior, arranging a desperately needed $10 million loan and later becoming chairman. Soon, though, the SEC charged, Vesco began acting as despoiler. His "brazen" scheme, according to the agency, unfolded in three steps...
...McKay is a jaunty, dapper hustler who earns upwards of $75,000 a year from his jobs as coach, athletic director, weekly TV football analyst and after-dinner speaker. Two years ago, he turned down an enticing $100,000 offer to coach the Los Angeles Rams. "I am one who believes that college football is a helluva challenge," he says, "perhaps even tougher than the pros." Friends believe that there was another reason for turning down the pro bid: he did not want to miss the opportunity of coaching his son, John K. McKay, a sophomore who is currently U.S.C...