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...importers as a way of getting around federal "antidumping" regulations, and selling color TV sets in the U.S. at bargain-basement prices. Government sources told TIME that one executive of a U.S. importing company has admitted that his firm has received millions of dollars in such kickbacks. John Nevin, chairman of Zenith, the U.S. company whose complaint touched off the investigation about a year ago, calls the kickback probe "the largest customs fraud investigation I know...
Zenith Chairman Nevin claims that the practice has been going on for years and that several big Japanese makers are involved. As to the number of U.S. kickback recipients, Nevin says: "I don't believe any large American buyer did not have the opportunity to get involved." A senior official at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo told TIME last week that 86 U.S. importers-presumably distributors and retailers, including some well-known chain stores-are under investigation. Worried embassy officials concede that they are convinced a major scandal is about to break...
...Other Southern parents say they are enrolling their children in academies because they are as upset by a loosening of academic standards and a lack of discipline in the public schools as they are about race. "They are trying to re-create the society they knew before," says David Nevin, research director of the Lamar Society, a civic-minded group of liberal Southerners that is studying the private schools. "A lot of them say that this is the kind of school I went...
...constantly hollers instructions to teammates during play. He has also blended easily into Coach Bob Pulford's style-a minimum of rowdy brawls and fancy maneuvers, a maximum of basic, methodical play. Vachon gets plenty of help from two N.H.L. veterans, Defenseman Terry Harper and Right Wing Bob Nevin, who leads the King attack. Before this season started, Vachon made an extra effort to get in shape, running three to four miles as well as playing tennis for up to four hours every day. He also worked full time building a new house for his wife...
...Long Island, joined the single file line of impressive power yachts as it weaved past the Vigilant and headed toward its special spectating area near the committee boat. The rest of the fleet had to stay back and be content to listen to the radio reports of Jerry Nevin and Norry Hoyt from the Hel Cat broadcast over Newport station WADK...