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...transport stolen IBM secrets to Japan. The company was fined $10,000, Hayashi $10,000 and another employee $4,000. The $24,000 in fines struck some observers as a bit light. Conceding that the costs of setting up the Japanscam were far greater than that, Assistant U.S. Attorney Herbert Hoffman added: "But then we don't run criminal investigations on a cost-effective basis. Justice has been accomplished." Also, Hitachi is out of pocket considerably more than $24,000. The $622,000 that Hitachi paid Glenmar, an FBI front, is still in the U.S. Treasury. Federal authorities...
...contrived plot centers on Captain Billy Buck Candler (Tune), an ace flyer who plans to become the first man to fly across the Atlantic to Paris, but whose passion for Edythe Herbert (Twiggy), an aquatic star, overwhelms his passion for the air. Edythe, however, is under the watchful and lustful eye of Prince Nicolai (Bruce McGill), the "Aquacade's" manager, who threatens to show Billy embarrassing photographs of Edythe and prevent their union. This "conflict" functions merely as a device to leave Billy and Edythe separated, but still in love, at the end of the first act. (Sometime during...
...here. Donald Crisp died here. Norma Shearer is here. Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson died here. Regis Toomey is here. Ellen Corby, the grandmother on The Waltons, just moved in. Stepin Fetchit is here. Bruce Cabot, Chester Conklin, Larry Fine (one of the Three Stooges), Edmund Lowe, Arthur O'Connell, Herbert Marshall and Mitchell Leisen (a director whose credits included Death Takes a Holiday) died here...
...some tutors said the overcrowding of most sections merely shows the popularity of the tutorials. "We were just appalled at the move to cut it back. Half of the people who applied were turned down," said Herbert W. Virgin IV '77, a biology tutor...
...conductor for life" of the fabled Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, 74, long ago grew accustomed to governing his orchestra with an autocratic hauteur that was seldom challenged. So the conductor expected no back-chair back talk when he named Sabine Meyer, 23, as the new solo clarinetist, and only the second female member in the philharmonic's 100-year history. But an overwhelming majority of the 118-member orchestra voted to oppose Von Karajan's protégée as "unsuitable" because of her alleged weakness as an ensemble performer. Outraged, the conductor coolly informed...