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...comes the biggest, and for the Government, perhaps the most difficult Abscam case. After examining its evidence for nine months, the Justice Department last week obtained an indictment against Democratic Senator Harrison ("Pete") Williams, 60, of New Jersey for allegedly offering to use his political influence to help a phony Arab sheik make profitable investments in the U.S. In return, the bribery indictment charges, Williams accepted shares in a defunct titanium mine in Virginia in which the sheik, who was actually an undercover FBI agent,' said he intended to invest $100 million...
...quarter-century, in the title role of Ruth Wolf's Sarah in America. "I hadn't opened a script for 26 years," says Palmer, now a successful novelist (The Red Raven), living in Switzerland. "I wanted a clean break after my divorce [from Actor Rex Harrison], and I thought that any new play would be a rehash of something I had done." Not Sarah. During the course of the show, the 66-year-old actress will age from 36 to 74, lose a leg, walk on the back of a whale and nearly drown in Niagara Falls. Says...
...Preyer acknowledges, "these are not normal times." This year he is locked in a fierce battle with a harddriving, conservative Republican: Eugene Johnston, 44, a graduate of Wake Forest Law School ('61) and self-made millionaire. Johnston is chief stockholder and president of Fisher-Harrison Corp., a graphics company in Greensboro with annual sales of $10 million, and of Johnston Properties Inc., a real estate firm with holdings worth more than $5 million. Says Johnston: "Richardson Preyer is a nice, honest man who votes his convictions. But he does not represent our interests...
...indomitable bluesman Muddy Waters; another from state-of-the-art New Wavers Talking Heads (see On Tour for coverage of their Heatwave Festival appearance); New Directions in Europe, a live one from Jack DeJohnette; Triumph from the Jacksons; plus new albums from Rickie Lee Jones, Paul Butterfield and George Harrison, not to mention a reunited George Jones and Tammy Wynette, a partnership responsible for some of the best duets in recent Country & Western history...
...sales rose to $869 million. The main reason for the lower 1979 profits: a strike-induced loss of $26.2 million by Hughes Airwest. Last year the hotel-casino group was the largest moneymaker, earning $38.7 million. The aviation group, on the other hand, made only $5.9 million. Says Rick Harrison, a Texas lawyer close to the protracted Hughes estate-tax fight: "Lummis has done a very good job. He's flat turned the company around...