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According to the indictment, the rigging was engineered mainly by five Chicagoans: Businessman Osborn Andreas, 63, Financier Mark Rolland, 33, Attorney Robert Ness, 38, onetime Stockbroker Spero Furla, 42, and Stock Salesman Burton ("Bud") Kozak, 36, the only one not named as a defendant. Andreas had been chairman, treasurer and a director of Pentron before he stormed out after a bitter "management dispute" in December 1965. Pentron had lost $2,400,000 that year, but Andreas, according to the charges, was determined to unload his 12% shareholding at "as high a price as possible." Ness, Rolland, Furla and Kozak promised...
...week's closing-but the Pentron perpetrators face stiff raps if convicted. Prison terms and fines could go as high as 99 years and $120,000 each for Andreas, Rolland and Furla, 97 years and $110,000 for Heischuber and Trombona, and five years and $10,000 for Ness...
...retrospect, the trial probably did the U.S. some good. Paris' L'Aurore dismissed it as "a circus." Le Figaro Litteraire accused Sartre of "childish ness." London's Observer said that the trial gave an excuse "to those who want to avoid thinking seriously about Viet Nam." It did more than that. It finally exposed the extreme critics of the U.S. position in Viet Nam for what they are -cynical and ridiculous...
...bulldozed, mined and wired barrier along the DMZ. Though such a Viet Nam-wall idea has long been discussed in Washington and rejected as too costly, the wall would serve to make a direct North Vietnamese invasion that much more difficult. It was a measure of the serious ness of the situation that the Marines, for all their misgivings about the wall's feasibility, last week began bulldozing their coastal area in preparation for just such a lethal barrier...
Thoroughly Modern Millie. It would take a miracle of invention to find fresh ness in so well-traveled a territory as the 1920s. Unhappily, miracles are difficult to find in this return trip to the decade of Hot Jazz, the Noble Experiment and the Emancipated Woman...