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...short, wily onetime New York City hoodlum who moved west 14 years ago, had been arrested a week earlier on a convenient charge of loan-sharking, with bail set at $1 million. Federal officials believe that he murdered Jack Molinas, 43, a gambling figure and porn-film distributor who was found shot in the head in his Hollywood Hills home in August 1975. The other victim: Vincent Calderazzo, a New York Mafia soldier whose bones were discovered by hikers in a shallow desert grave near Victorville, Calif., in March. Both were killed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fingering a .22-Cal. Killer | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...treatment here is much more mature and humane. Still, it was all too much for the Spanish government. Even after Viridiana won the Palme D'or at the Cannes film festival, the Franco regime banned its showing, and it wasn't until 1963 that Bunue found a U.S. distributor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunvel, Bergman and Bohemians | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...than a gasoline-powered engine. Besides that, diesel fuel, which is essentially highly refined fuel oil, can cost as much as 10? per gal. less at the pump than regular gasoline depending on the area of the country. And the diesel engine, which has no spark plugs or distributor points, requires less frequent maintenance and repair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit's Diesel | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...flew from Washington to Knoxville, Tenn., and back aboard the private jet of Knoxville's United American Bank, from which Lance has a $443,000 loan outstanding. Then the plane ferried Lance and his wife to New York. Later, a plane owned by Atlanta Newspaper Distributor Edward Elson flew the couple back to the capital, gratis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Going to Bat for Beleaguered Bert | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...Within the past year, while Penthouse in particular has made its inside text more blatant and kinkier, both Playboy and Penthouse have toned down the nudity of their covers. Guccione, whose Penthouse makes more money for news dealers than any other magazine, is concerned about the small-town Midwest distributor "whose wife plays pinochle with all the local wives." On request, Guccione supplies free "blinder racks" to any dealer so that only the name of the magazine shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Merchants of Raunchiness | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

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