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Real-life swashbucklers are trying to rip off this summer's hits...
...culture (he dismissed Rome's Colosseum as having "a remarkable permanency"). The hearty Fielding style was sometimes irritating, but his advice about potential surprises helped nervous travelers feel at home abroad. He was lavish with both praise and blame, lauding Greek tavernas and Dutch honesty and censuring rip-off artists like Venetian gondoliers, whom he called "surly, devious, tip-hungry ruffians...
Admiral Hyman Rickover may be in retirement, but his torpedo-like salvos against shipbuilders who rip off American taxpayers are still exploding. About six months before he finally left the Navy in January 1982 after 59 years of cantankerous service, Rickover, now 83, blasted four contractors in particular for making what he called "excessive profits" on their work for the Navy. A House committee asked the General Accounting Office, which is the investigative arm of Congress, to find out whether Rickover was right...
...silhouette of what appear to be jazz musicians and dancers on a ghetto street, the figures appear to laugh and then howl in anguish as the light changes. But another wall, a mural of floating patio furniture and suburban houses, is more than a bit obvious--it suggests a rip-off of the Rolling Stones' "Still Life" album cover. A third wall features a mural of haunting faces in the style of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo...
DIED. Charles ("Rip") Engle, 76, head football coach at Pennsylvania State University from 1950 to 1965 who developed the Nittany Lions into one of the nation's toughest teams (104 victories, 48 defeats, four ties); in Bellefonte, Pa. Engle was constantly worried that he would be "humiliated," even though his Penn State squad never had a losing season...