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...sports reporter for Newsday, the Long Island, N.Y. newspaper and one of the nation's largest dailies, Jackson says he wants to portray the athletes he covers as people, not just the makers of scores and statistics...
Last week a federal grand jury in New York City charged managers of the two small Wall Street companies, Sentinel Government Securities and Sentinel Financial Instruments, with perpetrating the largest criminal tax fraud in U.S. history. The defendants were alleged to have supplied investors with more than $130 million in bogus income tax deductions for the years 1979 and 1980. The previous record case: last September's indictment of Oil Trader Marc Rich and two of his associates for concealing more than $100 million in taxable income...
Although unaware that they were claiming questionable deductions, the Sentinel customers benefited mightily from their investments. Lear, who created such TV hits as All in the Family, Good Times and The Jeffersons, deducted $1.8 million on his 1980 federal return. Poitier wrote off $657,184 the same year. The largest amount claimed by an individual, some $3.5 million, was taken by George Scharffenberger, chairman of City Investing, a New York-based financial concern. Said he: "There's still a trial to be held, and they deny the charges very vigorously. We'll have to wait...
Lilly, the largest maker of prescription drugs in the U.S., has long been respected for its insulin and antibiotics. But it has had troubles with other products. Lilly developed Darvon, a painkiller that Ralph Nader's health group has attacked as being addictive, and marketed DES, a pregnancy drug that researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital linked to cancer. The company plans to appeal the Oraflex decision. With so many more cases still to be decided, Lilly has a huge stake in the outcome...
...Memorial Stadium, impishly referred to on fall Saturdays as the third largest Nebraska township (pop. 73,650), a principle has been literally etched in stone: "Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory." The words seem too high-blown to be associated with modern major-college football. Putting aside the moral excesses, just the logistical ones are awesome. And the Nebraska program, like so many others, is overgrown to the point of hilarity, but not to the exclusion of charm. Five years is the common hitch for a Nebraska football player...