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...several other offenses. Soon afterwards, his tapes turned up at the Justice Department, whose subsequent investigation uncovered evidence of widespread price-fixing in the industry. Justice won two indictments charging 15 companies, eight high executives and the association with using the Chicago hotel-room meeting-and other gatherings -to rig prices...
...Wallah), Director James Ivory proves a precise and witty landscape artist. The Victorians may have traded in silks and spices, but, as Ivory shows, today's Elizabethans are in the culture export-import business. The proof is provided in contradictory fragments: a sitar sits near a hi-fi rig; a girl is dubbed a beauty queen with a rhinestone coronet that matches the jewel in her nose; groupies sleep on a temple's tessellated floors...
...article by William M. Kutik in the Harvard Crimson of Saturday, April 19, it was alleged that I had helped to "rig" the mass meeting of Friday, April 18. In fact I had absolutely no control over the agenda or any other aspect of the meeting. Furthermore I am convinced that had anyone wanted to "rig" such a meeting they would have found it impossible to do so. A meeting of five thousand people cannot be rigged. The ordering of the agenda may be a somewhat controversial subject, but there is no such thing as a completely neutral agenda--someone...
There was no "rigging" of the agenda to the best of my knowledge. If there had been, I doubt that I would have given my name to the reporter as a member of the committee. It is impossible to "rig" a mass meeting of that size and structure where all views are, as they were, presented. In any case I wonder at an article which, on a nonobjective basis and without describing any sources of information, indulges in unjustified character assassination apparently for the sheer pleasure of it. The pointless vindictiveness of the article is underlined when one considers that...
...killing sea of oil off Southern California grew ever wider and more elusive. Though the eleven-day leak on Union Oil Company's offshore rig had been successfully plugged, its 800-sq.-mi. slick returned with each tide. And it was fed anew by a residual leak under Platform A that appeared last week...