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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...L.B.J., as its inmates call the Long Binh Jail, is like army stockades everywhere: not much worse than Stateside prisons, or more uncomfortable than the ordinary barracks of South Viet Nam. Located in the middle of the Army's main supply and administration center twelve miles northeast of Saigon, it houses 700 prisoners in a barbed-wire compound built for 400. Their crimes range from smoking pot or going AWOL to theft and murder, and as an M.P. staff officer puts it, the prisoners create "every kind of problem that you find in a civilian prison...
When the Czech film The Shop on Main Street was released in 1966, Ida Kaminska, 68, long a distinguished member of the Yiddish theater in her native Poland, became a familiar figure on the western side of the Iron Curtain. Now Miss Kaminska has decided she likes the West as much as the West likes her. Along with four members of her family, she flew from Poland to Vienna. Next stop is Israel, where she will be a guest of the government for a few weeks. She plans to come to the U.S. later this year and remain for good...
...government lawyers collected 70,000 pages of evidence and prepared a 972-page indictment in which company officers are charged with personal negligence leading to the marketing of an unsafe and insufficiently tested drug. The trial promises to last at least two years and will be divided into two main phases: 1) an effort to show that the damage was indeed caused by thalidomide; and 2) an attempt to prove that Grünenthal's executives were knowingly responsible and negligent. Last week, in a courtroom in Alsdorf, near Aachen, the prosecution moved deep into Phase...
...middle ground, Mayer declared, were all typical of the master's hand. With that, Samuel H. Kress bought the painting. Was Berenson wrong? Perhaps. In later years, even he grudgingly admitted that the painting had been done "in part" by Giorgione. But he refused to yield on his main point that "it was probably finished by Titian...
...will defend our position vigorously," said a spokesman. For its own sake, the firm can afford to do no less. Merrill Lynch owes both its eminence and fortune to its success in wooing the small investor. To back the well-justified boast that it brought Wall Street to Main Street, the company points to its 1,400,000 individual customers, nearly one-third more than any other stockbroker has. Their trading, along with that of 3,000 institutional customers, last year helped Merrill Lynch to gross $369 million and net a record $54.6 million...