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...went back to college for a degree in urban studies when her sons were grown, then successfully bucked the crowd that had run city hall for nearly 30 years. Bill J. Dukes had been an executive at the Monsanto Co. but then served two mayors of Decatur as an administrative aide. A tall, handsome, quiet-spoken native of Muhlenberg, Ky., Dukes says: "Finally I decided to try it myself. I wanted to show that Decatur is not what people think. We're a progressive city -even though I'm still considered a Yankee after 22 years...
Despite the report, the legal battle over who was responsible for the crash is far from over. At stake are millions of dollars in damage suits. In Washington, American Airlines Vice President Donald J. Lloyd-Jones told a Senate hearing: "It may be that we did cause the crack." But he suggested that the problem could have originated with metal wedges used by the manufacturer to align parts that had not fitted exactly when the aircraft was built Said he: "It may be that the existence of shims in the aft bulkhead created an interference fit that made the creation...
...Suit in Washington last week, the SEC accused ISC of getting some $750 million in orders over the past decade by making more than $23 million in "questionable and illicit" payments, and having "outstanding commitments" of $10 million for similar payments. Named as defendants were the company, deposed Chairman J. Thomas Kenneally, Senior Vice President Herman Frietsch, former General Counsel Raymond Hofker, former Treasurer Albert Angulo and Chief Engineer Harlan Stein. The SEC asked the court immediately to appoint an agent to take over the company's records and oversee its activities. Reason...
...Wild Oats, Jacob Epstein NONFICTION: Bay of Pigs, Peter Wyden ∙Billy Graham, Marshall Frady ∙Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙Confession and Avoidance, Leon Jaworski ∙The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Powers That Be, David Halberstam ∙To Set the Record Straight, John J. Sirica...
What first impelled Pearson to pursue J. Parnell Thomas, head of the House Un-American Affairs Committee? The belief, according to Anderson, that the "Americanism that went in for public inquisitions into the politcal notions of movie actors was bound to attract the dishonest man, the cheat looking for a patriotic cover." So Pearson learned that Thomas was romancing a young woman in his office; a jealous older secretary's testimony about the Congressman's payroll padding sent Thomas to jail, and a grateful Pearson put her on his payroll for 15 years. In Pearson's eagerness...