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Hirsch points out that the major backers have been known publicly since last March (though the "privacy" of some shareholders has been protected so far). Says he: "It's a lot of red-herring stuff." Though the incident marred New Times's opening, negotiations between Hirsch and the dissidents were continuing-through a lawyer...
...town itself are in danger of extinction. In a complex court case now in its twelfth week, the Government is suing to halt Reserve Mining from dumping 67,000 tons of ore wastes per day into Lake Superior, charging that it is dangerously polluting the once pristine lake, depleting herring fisheries and releasing toxic asbestos fibers into the water...
...President Nixon's recent admission that he authorized his staff to curb Watergate investigations for reasons of "national security" is the old red-herring tactic...
...their lives to each other. Cappella is lonely and troubled mainly because he is unwanted and superfluous. He explains a painful extramarital relationship which resulted in a daughter whose true identity he had to keep from his wife; and between sad reminiscences he screams in the night for herring or chopped liver...
...football tickets in lieu of cold cash. Like everyone else in town, they know that the hottest action around is not on the jai-alai courts or out at Hialeah, but in the Orange Bowl. There the Miami Dolphins are grinding up National Football League opponents like so many herring. And irony of ironies, the undisputed hero of sybaritic, leisure-loving Miami is the leader of the Dolphin pack, Coach Don Shula, 42, a rock-jawed, Jesuit-trained disciplinarian who would seem to fit the city's image about as well as Frank Sinatra would suit Painesville, Ohio...