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...possibility of an IRA connection stems from several findings: 1) Both Lynch and Byrne were born in Ireland; 2) Lynch had made several trips to England and Ireland in the past year, according to his passport; 3) Byrne spoke to friends about making a "big score" to help "the cause"; 4) the odd ransom sums, first $4.6 million, then $2.3 million, convert roughly into 2 million and 1 million English pounds...
...lobby of the Loeb is festooned with those streamers and with blinking lights in honor of the theater's summer season of "four American plays." And what could be more American than a George and Ira Gershwin musical about upper-class bootlegging during Prohibition? Admittedly Oh, Kay! has a book co-authored by one of the enemy--P.G. Wodehouse--but the score should more than make up for it, with such all-American numbers as "Clap Yo' Hands," "Someone To Watch Over Me," "Maybe," and "Do, Do, Do." It was a smash hit in 1926. The Loeb's version...
...Arthur Karuna-Karan and Mahmood Mamdani? Who are Bonnie B. Blustein '72 and Ira D. Helfand '71? Who is Tommy th'Bopper...
...best thing anyone could think up to say about Ira Levin's novel when it came out a few years ago was that it might make a pretty good movie. The best thing you can say about the movie is that they were wrong-not wildly, but enough. Levin's notion was that a community of commuter types might become so fed up with women's lib-or maybe just old-fashioned female contrariness-that it would strike a bargain with a Disneyland fugitive. His idea is to do in their spouses and replace them with physically...
...four had written letters to Sirica in hopes of avoiding a prison sentence. Only Ehrlichman's new lawyer, bearded, long-haired Ira M. Lowe, revealed in court what his client had pleaded. Ehrlichman, said Lowe, had expressed his "profound regret" for his role in the Watergate conspiracy. Wrote Ehrlichman: "I have been found to be a perjurer. No reversal on appeal can remove the stigma." Lowe said that Ehrlichman had asked to be allowed to spend his sentence working with 6,000 Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, using his legal talents to help them with land-use problems...