Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acting career is not good for marriage," but she is not ready to settle down. Her parents are encouraging her independence. They recently bought a London apartment for her. But she does not want it known too quickly that she has stopped housekeeping for her boy friend, the Hon. Patrick Fisher, a rich young man about town. Show business, she knows only too well, is a lot of hype-and giving up such a trendy arrangement might kill her publicity...
...fast catching up with Ted Patrick, the black San Diego-based religious bounty hunter who helps parents recapture and "deprogram" young people who have joined offbeat sects. In May, Patrick was convicted in Fullerton, Calif., for unlawfully imprisoning a 19-year-old Hare Krishna adherent. Last week he received his sentence: a 60-day jail term, which he will appeal. The California case could cause Patrick more trouble in Colorado; he was convicted on a charge of false imprisonment in Denver last year, but placed on probation and ordered not to practice his specialty on adult cultists without their consent...
After four years and a claimed 1,000 deprogrammings, Patrick's operation has become a sizable enterprise, with a network of 300 trained operatives. Although Patrick says that his take from the business is only about $10,000 a year, his services are not cheap. In the early days, he requested that his parent-clients cover only his costs. But now the bill for a Patrick deprogramming job can run as high as $25,000, including expenses...
...scourge of Glitter Gulch has rarely been that reticent. Born in Brooklyn 65 years ago, Herman Milton Greenspun hit Las Vegas after a World War II Army hitch and bought an ailing Vegas newspaper. He quickly won national prominence-and circulation-with slashing attacks on Senators Joseph McCarthy and Patrick McCarran, whose Red baiting offended him. McCarran died in 1954 in Hawthorne, Nev., just after giving a speech in which he exclaimed: "Greenspunism must be defeated!" Since then, the whip of Greenspunism has been laid mostly on local figures, including Howard Hughes, who left for the Bahamas in 1970. Greenspun...
ALEXANDER DOLGUN'S STORY: AN AMERICAN IN THE GULAG by ALEXANDER DOLGUN with PATRICK WATSON 370 pages. Knopf...