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...Jack Molinas, 43, master fixer of college basketball games in the nationwide point-shaving scandal of 1961, and later the producer of hard-core sex films. He was shot in the head in his Hollywood Hills home in August 1975 for cheating Mafia loan sharks...
...case, an American businessman who wanted to comply with the blacklist would have trouble finding out whom he was supposed to discriminate against. The list is constantly changing as firms are added-sometimes for unfathomable reasons-and others are dropped, often after paying the right fixer or offering lucrative investments in Arab lands. The only copy of the list that Washington has is dated 1970. Among those on the list: Motorola, CBS, Republic Steel, Kaiser Aluminum, RCA, Xerox, Lord & Taylor, Owens-Illinois, Ford, Coca Cola, Zenith...
...London. During his 37 years on the staff, Feather led some of the TUC's toughest negotiations. When Britain's Tory government in 1971 passed the Industrial Relations Act restricting union power, Feather made it largely inoperative by refusing to cooperate. A fighter but also a "fixer," he was a moderating force in dealing with the rising influence of left-wing leaders...
Died. James Aloysius Farley, 88, Franklin D. Roosevelt's astute political strategist and fixer; in Manhattan. Farley was a consummate politician of the old ward-heeling school, a big bluff, outgoing operator who belonged to every fraternal organization from the Elks to the Eagles, knew every local Democratic chieftain from his native New York to California, and could win a new ally or stroke an old one with a warm note signed "Jim" in his trademark Irish green ink. He left a prospering building-materials business for politics, "the noblest of careers," becoming New York State Democratic Secretary...
...deals more with exorcists and the price they pay for battling with spirits than the possessed themselves. As he relates their stories, it seems the physical and spiritual price is very high indeed. One exorcist, a virgin, makes the near fatal mistake of personally challenging the spirit named "Girl-Fixer," without attacking it in the name of Jesus Christ. The virgin priest is "raped," the spirit clawing his buttocks and genitals so badly that he must be hospitalized. Another, Father Peter, faces humiliation as his personal secrets are exposed during the course of an exorcism. A spirit called "The Smiler...