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...Last week Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, was awarded $11.3 million for patent infringement by Chrysler. The carmaker must pay him about 90 cents for each of the 12.6 million cars it equipped with the wipers from 1977 to '88. Kearns, who won a similar judgment from Ford in 1990 for $10.2 million, has lawsuits pending against General Motors and 17 other carmakers...
Among the luminaries charged were Martin Revson, co-founder of the Revlon cosmetics empire, and Edward Downe Jr., a former director of the investment bank Bear Stearns and husband of auto heiress Charlotte Ford. The SEC claims Downe used his position at the Wall Street firm to cull confidential information on companies and then used it to earn profits of $3.3 million in stock trades. Revson allegedly netted $1.7 million from improper tips he received from Downe. Others charged by the SEC are Steven Greenberg, a former public relations executive, who allegedly pocketed $550,000 in illicit profits; Thomas Warde...
...best, although perhaps not the only, reason to see Patriot Games, which is a sort of sequel to the successful adaptation of another Tom Clancy thriller, The Hunt for Red October. Ford replaced Alec Baldwin, who played sometime cia intelligence analyst Jack Ryan in the earlier movie, when Baldwin turned uppity. Some other characters are also carried over from the previous venture...
...four exciting preliminary confrontations between the good folks and the bad ones, and a stormy-night conclusion in which all of the above are somewhat laboriously maneuvered into a large, dark house, a device that may be conventional but is nonetheless well managed. Along with the expert binding of Ford's performance, these are the juicy raisins -- Shall we say the raisons d'etre? -- in an otherwise blandish pudding...
CINEMA Harrison Ford enlivens Patriot Games, fortunately...