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Coach Joe Duff is counting on captain Bob Adrion (4-2) to anchor the staff, with help from sophomore Jon Rees (4-0) and reliever Craig Gibson. As a unit the pitching corps is improved from last year but their inexperience may catch up with them if the pennant race gets tight in the later going...
While going through documents that came across her desk, Secretary Marion Gibson, 42, began to surmise that her boss, John Z. De Lorean, 56, founder of the De Lorean Motor Co., had managed to avoid spending about $3.3 million the company was supposed to invest on its automaking facilities in Northern Ireland...
British-born Gibson took her accusation to Nicholas Winterton, a Conservative Member of Parliament and a critic of government aid for De Lorean's project...
Undeterred by that chilly response, Gibson gave the London Daily Mirror a memo purportedly written by a De Lorean executive. It was silent on the subject of a multimillion-dollar investment shortfall, but described a lesser lapse. The memo said the company had purchased gold faucets and other items worth $19,000 at Harrods, the expensive London department store, for the Ulster home of one of its executives. The firm reportedly "fuzzed" these expenses in bookkeeping records. De Lorean dismissed the latest charges and added: "We plan to file substantial libel actions against all the De Lorean people involved...
...enjoy a friendship and then must endure war, it is poignant and masterfully drawn. Peter Weir safely navigates the film away from both bombast and ineffectuality. The relationship of Archy and Frank is at once simple and affecting as it unfolds through the short, lyrical scenes. Both Lee and Gibson acquit themselves well in their roles and give sound, straightforward performances. Weir's direction of the background characters is better still. As random soldiers, desert wanderers and Australian ranchers, the supporting actors turn in a number of superb vignettes...