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...white Rhodesia in its last hours of peril. The country now has embryonic chapters of both the John Birch Society and the American Nazi party. There is a bearded ex-Minuteman who claims he is still "on the lam from the feds" in the U.S. Another is an American peddler who spent months trying unsuccessfully to sell bulletproof vests. "Let's face it," says a longtime American res ident, "if they're losers in the States, they're going to be double losers out here. They all figure that because of the pressure the country...
Bombs exploded and demonstrators round the world marched in protest on Aug. 23, 1927, the day Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in a Massachusetts electric chair. In the half-century since, the case of the "good shoemaker" and the "poor fish peddler" has continued to stir men's passions. Generations of Americans have wrangled bitterly over whether or not the two admitted anarchists were guilty of shooting two men during a holdup and whether they received a fair trial. Last week Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis signed a proclamation officially stating that Sacco and Vanzetti had indeed been...
...some 20 Congressmen. South Korean Rice Broker Tongsun Park was a well-heeled friend who entertained lavishly and contributed thousands of dollars to their election campaigns. To the Park Chung Hee regime in Seoul, Businessman Park (no kin to the autocratic President) was a wily influence peddler who over the past decade spent millions of dollars in Washington to head off threatened cutbacks in U.S. military aid or the withdrawal of American troops from South Korea. In fact, TIME has learned, federal investigators have turned up evidence that Park was a master swindler. In a scheme worthy of Terry...
...MENGERS, 39, is vice president and resident Hollywood flesh peddler for I.C.M., but she might as well work for Ma Bell. In her Beverly Hills palazzo, the silken-haired, avocado-shaped agent has 14 phones and a WATS line on which she curses and cajoles (in her soft little-girl voice) at least 80 people a day. After her 1973 marriage to Screenwriter Jean-Claude Tramont, Mengers reports, she spent most of their honeymoon in telephone booths on various Greek islands. 'Im a hustler," she admits, but she does not like to be called a "packager." She considers herself...
...Calif., get beeped home to dinner. Guests at Manhattan's Statler Hilton who expect important calls can rent beepers for $5 a day, then go sightseeing. By June, a caller will be able to beep from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles via satellite. A Boston narcotics peddler used top-line $300 models to keep track of his 13 pushers-until he went to jail and the pushers made off with the pagers. The users most thoroughly hooked on pocket page calls may be ... well, hookers. The gadgets are standard equipment for Las Vegas professionals...