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PENN-TEXAS CORP., owner of 478,250 shares or a 44% interest in heavy-equipment making Fairbanks, Morse, may be forced to sell "some 132,000" Morse shares bought since last May. Fairbanks, Morse has haled Penn-Texas into a Chicago court, charges that it is guilty of "flagrant" contempt of the Federal court order (in May) to stop trying to take over Morse within the next five years...
Boston is not the city in which to see a racy film in its original form. The subtitles seem mildly watered down, sporting such translations as "shady ladies" and "To Hades with you." The most flagrant breach of the Production Code is a Bikini revealing the navel...
...hapless citizen who must do business-and battle-with the state. The rest either do little or do nothing, throughout their easy workday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. By law, nothing can tear even the indolent and the inefficient from the payrolls except criminal conviction for repeated flagrant insubordination, which must be proved in a formal trial. Ministries are loaded with "temporary workers" who stay until death. Forbidden to hire new stenographers, the Ministry of Justice put them on the rolls as "prison guards, female, temporary...
Last week Boris Morros was also on the move. He was back in his beloved show business as a man no longer suspect. Friends who once crossed Hollywood-and-Vine to avoid the man they despised as a flagrant fellow traveler were proud to talk to him again. Boris, who estimates he lost $2,000,000 in possible earnings by becoming a counterspy, was busy with plans for the future. He had already charmed 18 Nobel Prizewinners into recounting their life stories to him, hoped to turn the stories into a series of television films...
...milled happily about the ivy-grown Allegheny Mountain resort near Uniontown, Pa. Some of them went in for a moonlight dip from the concrete bathing pavilion, and it was 4 a.m. before things quieted down; the management even set up a few drinks on the house all around-a flagrant violation of Pennsylvania liquor laws. But the 34-year-old hotel would not be needing its liquor license any more. It had been sold -lake, bars and all-to an obscure religious sect called the Society of Brothers...