Word: pollacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...location in Japan to play a detective in Sydney Pollack's Japanese mobster movie The Yakuza, Old Pro Robert Mitchum, 56, himself was mobbed. Strolling through the Gion, Kyoto's geisha district, the star found himself surrounded by geisha pleading, "Please, Kirk Douglas-san, your autograph." Regretfully rubbing his chin, which is as deeply dimpled as Kirk's, Mitchum resolved that future excursions would have to be incognito. Next day on the set, he inspected a possible disguise: the beehive headgear originally worn by jobless, mendicant samurai trying to hide their shame...
...three times before in his 27-year SEC career, largely because he has not built a political base by cultivating Congressmen or influential Wall Streeters. Now, with the Administration struggling to restore confidence in Government and the SEC striving to revive faith in the securities markets, Pollack's moment has come. Says an SEC staffer: "Because of Watergate, the Administration had to come up with a completely honest...
...Pollack, 55, never accepts even a free lunch from anyone in the securities business. He lives in a modest house that he bought in 1956 for $18,500. If he left Government, he could easily multiply his salary of $36,000; as a commissioner, he will get a raise...
Knack for Nailing. Pollack has been centrally involved at the commission in moves to reform the market system and protect investors. Instead of wasting resources trying to track down small-time securities sharpies, he has concentrated on nailing the big operators, and he has shown a knack for it that would be worthy of the fictional Inspector Maigret, another unprepossessing sleuth. He was active in or headed the SEC investigations that led to charges being filed against such celebrated operators as Lowell Birrell, Eddie Gilbert. Louis Wolfson, Robert Vesco and Bernard Cornfeld.*When tremendous pressure was brought...
...Recently Pollack directed the SEC'S investigation of Financier C. Arnholt Smith, Nixon's longtime friend and financial backer, who has been charged with fleecing $100 million from the stockholders of a San Diego-based conglomerate, Westgate-California Corp. Pollack did not know about the Nixon connection until he read about it in the newspapers when the investigation was well under way. Casually, Pollack asked his staff: "Is this guy the C. Arnholt Smith?" Told that he was, Pollack simply shrugged and went back to work...