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...Governor's diamond-hard line: mandatory life sentences for all hard-drug pushers and hard-drug users who commit violent crimes while under the influence. The sentences would preclude any possibility of parole or plea bargaining (although those in their upper teens would become eligible for parole after 15 years...
...Rahilly initially staffed Radio Caroline (whose theme song, naturally, is Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline) with three London deejays: Andy Archer, Crispin St. John and Peter Chicago. He paid them in advance, but somehow he neglected to pay Mi Amigo's Dutch captain or the six-man crew. Between Christmas and New Year's, the crew quit. Captain Will van der Kamp, in the best seagoing tradition, refused to abandon ship. But feeling threatened by the deejays, he armed himself with a rifle and locked himself in his cabin on the bridge...
...doing are executed as rigorously as Fogarty's basic randomness permits. After the requisite one night stand (the lady's a widow, aging and fat; the seduction is crummy lousy and cheap; and the whole situation is regretably funny) Fogarty drops in on his old Brooklyn baunts the baseball diamond, the local church--the confessional--the bar, and to an. He eventually takes his son to Coney Island and makes a mess of it by turning ride into a puberty rise that neither can stomach. The result is a traumatized child and a vomiting father Fogarty finishes off the weekend...
...high executives had left; to replace them, Knudsen recruited from the senior ranks of GM, Chrysler, Ford, Borg Warner, Sperry Rand and W.R. Grace. Then he consolidated the company's many truck lines, which were engaged in a debilitating competition against each other. After selling off Diamond Reo, he pulled together the four remaining lines-Autocar, White, White Freightliner and White Western Star -under one marketing group and advertised them heavily...
...better this season. In an effort to improve the efficiency of the theaters, which are in use for only some 16 hours per week, the organization is opening them up to other kinds of attractions besides plays. These have already included a one-man show by Singer Neil Diamond and an auto-show-cum-entertainment for General Motors dealers...