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...University of Illinois. Last week, after 36 years at General Motors (all but four in finance), Murphy, 58, took the final step in from the cold; the serious, spectacled accountant was named chairman and chief executive of General Motors, the most prestigious corporate post in the world. "Murph" will take office Dec. 1, a week after his predecessor, Richard C. Gerstenberg, who earned $923,000 in salary and bonus last year, reaches GM's mandatory retirement...
...appointed Maurice Nadjari, 48, superprosecutor. Tall, lean, tightlipped, Nadjari has spent some 18 years as a prosecutor. He was instrumental in the conviction of Murph the Surf and his two pals in the Star of India thefts from the American Museum of Natural History in 1964. As part of the search for the elusive gems, he even went scuba diving off Miami Beach. Later he successfully prosecuted Republican officials on Long Island for taking bribes in return for zoning changes. "If you went to central casting for a prosecutor," says a Rockefeller aide, "this is the man you would...
...other matches, Fred Fisher downed Exie Bob Fisher and Steve Mead defeated Paul Ramsey. Dick Cashin took his match over Dan Cohen, and Howland "Murph" Murphy beat Peter Mons...
...when the doors to the Sargent Gym opened., there was a broad line of ticketholders stretching up the block and around the corner. Murph and Frank got in. The gym began to fill; first-comers went right up to the stage; the crowd spread over the gym floor from front to back, and reached up into the bleachers along the walls...
...playing together-not frenziedly ecstatic, not necessarily beamishly, outwardly scstatic, but nonetheless in a state of continual ecstasy. Their intense pleasure comes through in their music, in the way they combine. What the source of this ecstasy is, what the cause is in the musicians, is open to question. Murph asserts that one of the drummers is up on cocaine most of the time. Another fan who has lived with the latest Dead album, American Beauty, since its November release, suspects that the Dead, in the course of their earlier experiences and perhaps as a result of earlier drug...