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Complaints. While the details of the Government's case were laboriously argued at the trial, the jury was convinced of the essential charges, finding Dowdy guilty on all eight counts. The Justice Department pictured Cohen as a slick operator from Baltimore whose Monarch Construction Co. grossed more than $2,000,000 from home improvements in the Washington area between 1963 and 1965. Complaints about high costs and shoddy workmanship caused the Federal Housing Authority to investigate Monarch, banks were warned by the FHA, money became scarce and the company folded. When the Justice Department began its own investigation, Cohen...
Cohen's scheme for avoiding prosecution was to get Dowdy to call him before his subcommittee, thereby enabling Cohen to testify about his own fraudulent practices at Monarch and then be granted immunity from prosecution for his testimony. Cohen assigned Myrvin Clark, Monarch's sales manager, to approach Dowdy. The deal, according to the Government, was that Dowdy would call Cohen if paid $25,000. Clark, who had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of transporting the bribe money, testified that he gave Dowdy $25,000 in a briefcase at the Atlanta airport on Sept. 22, 1965. Dowdy...
Miss Redgrave's Mary is regal, nervous, passionate, uncertain - a delicate creature in life who becomes indomitable only in death. Miss Jackson's Elizabeth is cunning, complex, intriguing - a monarch whose desire for power is both a motivating force and a tragic flaw, Otherwise, various men of the court make violent mischief amongst each other on staircases and battlements...
...concert stage, Sutherland appears imposing and grandiose, like a friendly monarch. Sills strides onto a stage bobbing her head and grinning, like an elegant shepherdess. Where Sutherland sails into a fast aria with grand nonchalance, Sills is likely to bounce up and down with infectious self-enjoyment. Sutherland usually finishes with a smile and a regal bow, Sills with a somewhat defiant toss of her head as if to say: "There! Top that!" So far, nobody has been able to top either of them...
...Emperor's scientific pursuits have earned him induction into Britain's 300-year-old Royal Society, a ceremony likely to be a high point of his European trip. Only British kings can pull rank to get into this learned group. The only other foreign monarch who is a member now is Sweden's King Gustav VI Adolf, a horticulturist...