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...part of an FBI sting operation from 1977 until 1980, Livingston used the alias "Pat Salamone" while masquerading as a Miami pornography distributor. He hobnobbed with gangsters, buying their smut, counterfeit Hollywood films and even 50 submachine guns. The sting ended in 54 arrests, but for Livingston the charade had become muddled with reality. He kept bank accounts in his pseudonym and introduced himself regularly as Pat Salamone. According to Fred Schwartz, the Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the sting defendants, Livingston has "psychiatric problems that make it difficult for him to distinguish between his real identity and his undercover identity...
...machines in the Houses and the Freshman Union are currently license said Mary Calnan, an official at the city licensing commission. She added that the effect of the fee increase on the Union and House commitees renting the units games depends on the particular distributor who owns the games...
...Somewhere in the hullabaloo, the Board's various executive directors and Program Services Officers--the ones dealing with the fluctuating legislation and sparring with reporters over nuances in PSAT answer sheets--discovered a new concerned group: students. Ordinarily the Board shapes policies around input from ETS, which as distributor deals with high school and college administrators and guidance counselors, who deal with kids. Most of the relevant top brass also take the SAT every few years to see how the land lies...
...Kings, sponsored by the Cambridge Anheuser-Busch distributor, have gained a reputation as a wild and crazy bunch, a reputation that Coach Tim Flynn (also Coach of Division III defending champion Bettley College) terms inaccurate. "Most of the guys have to get up and go to work in the morning. We're not looking for physical game," he said...
There is some dispute over who owns One From the Heart. According to one source, Coppola may have sold the film to Paramount without having bought it back from MGM, its previous distributor. Lawyers from Paramount and Zoetrope are also haggling over the contract. Did Paramount renege by not paying Zoetrope $1.6 million in "completion money"? Did Coppola lose his claim by going too far over the shooting schedule? The maestro maintained that these details do not matter: "There is no battle as far as I'm concerned. I'm just trying to give people the excitement...