Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involved at the commission in moves to reform the market system and protect investors. Instead of wasting resources trying to track down small-time securities sharpies, he has concentrated on nailing the big operators, and he has shown a knack for it that would be worthy of the fictional Inspector Maigret, another unprepossessing sleuth. He was active in or headed the SEC investigations that led to charges being filed against such celebrated operators as Lowell Birrell, Eddie Gilbert. Louis Wolfson, Robert Vesco and Bernard Cornfeld.*When tremendous pressure was brought on the SEC to allow Cornfeld to sell mutual funds...
...Patch and improvise. The Germans would go running for their rule books, and the French would be out marching with the red flags. We know the routine.' Yet there is growing pessimism that the future may not come around after all. As Richard Mills, 25, a Birmingham plant inspector, put it, 'When this crisis passes, we'll have a boom, and then there'll be strikes and overtime bans. Then another crisis reaction. It's getting to be part of the British way of life...
...bathrooms in the south entry of Matthews Hall are apparently in violation of the Cambridge health code, a city inspector said yesterday...
...redoubtable Walter Matthau is present and well accounted for in the Martin Beck role (though he is unaccountably renamed Jake Martin), and Bruce Dern is expertly exasperated as the inspector's new partner, trying to get the hang of the older man's methods and eccentricities. They give the film what ever humanity and fitful vitality it enjoys...
...INSPECTOR by Saul Steinberg. Unpaged. Viking. $10. Something less than a genius who doodles but something more than a doodler of genius, Steinberg goes on defying categories, preconceptions and occasionally-perspective. In this, his sixth book of drawings in three decades, hints of satire flicker over images of parades, masks, street corners and architecture. Is Steinberg making some point about bureaucratic conformity, say, or cultural cacophony? Perhaps. But too much interpretation spoils the fun. What interpretation is needed, anyway, of an artist who can symbolize what a dog thinks and render a woman's conversation as a series...