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Though the Watergate serial dominated our mail, our Jan. 22 cover on Marlon Brando's controversial film, Last Tango in Paris, elicited an unprecedented 12,000 letters for a single story, surpassing the number received for the previous record holder, the cover story Is God Dead?, in 1966. A story need not be cover-length, however, to stir up a big response. A short item in People [April 2] on Billy Graham drew scores of letters, most of which criticized the evangelist's suggestion that rapists be castrated. "Bless Billy Graham for making virtue secure," wrote one subscriber...
...Perot has been sued by Nella A. Walston, widow of the founder and a major holder of Walston stock. She charged that Perot and his partners seized control of the firm in order to use its capital to cut their multimillion-dollar losses in duPont Glore Forgan. into which they had poured at least $65 million. She asked the court to declare the semimerger null and void and to put both Walston and duPont Glore Forgan into receivership...
...Senators particularly took issue with the big investors' practice of buying, selling and voting stock in the names of "nominees." The use of these "street name" partnerships is a matter of convenience, easing the transfer of stock, but a byproduct is that the identity of the actual holder is clouded. Stock controlled by the Bank of New York may be in the name of Lerche & Co.; stock controlled by First National City may be in the name of Dooling & Co. The State Street Bank has 99 such nominees, many with nautical company names: Oar, Jib, Halyard and Bilge...
...Embree, high jump record-holder, will team up with Vanderpool-Wallace to provide Harvard with a one-two punch in the high jump event...
...Springate, Bill Ocherman, Wayne Curtis and Joel Paters will fill the gaps in the 1000, but a lot of rebuilding will have to be done, McCurdy said. Fortunately, the Crimson has a 600-yd. record-holder in tri-captain Nick Leone, returning to the squad...