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...When you saw that Columbia lost 5-4 to Navy (after having lost 9-0 to Princeton the day before)." Barnaby said, "you realize it was a morale thing. I told our guys they had to bounce like a rubber ball...
...last week: "The foreign observer immediately notices the amazement of the young revolutionary soldiers who look like hillbillies in front of an Ali Baba cave that still spews diverse riches and gadgets from an essentially American and Japanese consumer society. Drab, in uniform without decorations or grade, shod in rubber-thonged sandals, they are visibly astonished by these elegant, made-up young women, by these people their age astride Hondas. Also incredulous are the people of Hanoi, who for 20 years have lived in austerity, when they see in their newspapers pictures of the store windows of Danang...
...trim, wavy-haired Baptist minister and self-proclaimed clairvoyant from Memphis who purports to have foreseen a variety of specific deaths, illnesses and other disasters. Bubar met Moeller about ten years ago, became his spiritual guru and ultimately a director of Ohio Decorative Products. He supposedly served Sponge Rubber Products as a water-purification consultant, annoying various managers by poking around the main Shelton plant unescorted and as he pleased. But the plant, so far as anyone knew, had no water problems...
Federal authorities, anxious to minimize any prejudicial publicity, have so far not revealed their theory of the crime's motive. The signs seem to point to old-fashioned insurance fraud. Moeller bought Sponge Rubber Products' manufacturing operations and inventories last year from the B.F. Goodrich Co., which had found the company's profits unacceptably low. Shortly thereafter, he lost a $5 million Sears, Roebuck account after jacking up prices too abruptly, then lost more business after severely tightening credit terms for customers. A day after Moeller's arrest, Sponge Rubber Products' attorneys filed an insurance...
...Shelton, the news of the indictments was small comfort. The unemployment rate in town is a high 14%, and nearly 300 of the people left jobless by the bombing are still out of work. It is likely that Sponge Rubber Products will fold altogether, bad news for the 600 people working at its three other plants still operating in the area. Says Lloyd Witmer, an aide to Shelton's mayor: "You hear comments like 'So they caught the people who did it, so now they'll bring them to trial. But what does that...