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TUCKER. Francis Ford Coppola fashions a grand entertainment from the heroic efforts of Preston Tucker to market his 1947 "car of tomorrow...
EUROPE. The grand prize. Gorbachev's Westpolitik -- the INF treaty, his subtle wooing of the West Europeans with the notion of a "common European homeland," his gestures toward disarmament that have already propelled him in European public opinion polls higher than the President of the U.S. -- is calculated to advance the most important Soviet geopolitical objective of all, the detachment of Western Europe from America. The road to the breakup of the U.S.-European alliance is the denuclearization, leading to the neutralization, of Europe. This is a traditional Soviet objective. But ironically it may prove necessary for the success...
Earl Warren's dated sigh about men's failures being on the front page and their successes on the sports page changed to a laugh last week when, in the same edition, several football agents, two boxers and a hockey player extended the fields of play to a grand jury room, an all-night boutique in Harlem and a prison cell...
Meanwhile, Sports Agents Norby Walters, Lloyd Bloom and David Lueddeke were indicted by a grand jury in Chicago, along with former Ohio State Receiver Cris Carter, on charges involving improper payments to college athletes. Such charges are customarily leveled only by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Throughout a long and public investigation, Walters' position has been that Frank Merriwell is dead, and so what if a few undergraduates lose their eligibility in the rush to riches? The N.C.A.A. rules have no weight of real...
...grand jury, however, took seriously certain hints to defecting clients having to do with bone breaking. Walters and Bloom characterized the atmosphere as good-humored. Nonetheless, racketeering, mail fraud, obstruction of justice and a few other terms not found in the playbooks made their way into the sports section. Brent Fullwood of the Packers, Paul Palmer of the Chiefs and Ronnie Harmon of the Bills headed a list of 43 named but unindicted former Walters and Bloom clients who cut pretrial deals involving community service and scholarship refunds. So sports are not above the law after...