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...whatever Koernke's actions and associations back home, it is his role as a traveling salesman that seems to take most of his energy. Since April he has bobbed up in Livonia, Palm Springs and Orlando, Florida. At each venue he works the Oklahoma City bombing more snugly into his world view as "yet another foot stomp on the part of the new-world-order crowd to manipulate the population," softening it up for draconian new antiterrorism measures. At each venue, it seems, there are more reporters. At each Koernke touches a few more people...
...Simpson trialhave established at least one incontravertible fact: the Simpsons did quite a bit of shopping. And they did it at Bloomingdale's. A second representative of the upscale department store was called to the stand today. Continuing the prosecution's line of footwear questioning, former Bloomingdale's shoe salesman Samuel Poser said that although he remembered selling O.J. size 12 shoes on several occasions, he couldn't remember if they were the Italian Bruno Magli shoes that prosecutors say left bloody prints at the crime scene. Earlier in the trial, a Bloomingdale's buyer testified that the bloody glove...
...when he was only 35, Vesco set his eyes on Investors Overseas Services, a floundering mutual fund run by playboy-salesman Bernard Cornfeld. Touting his expertise in setting up ICC (by then a conglomerate of several companies) Vesco came in with a $5 million bail-out and was hailed as IOS's savior. Very quickly, however, IOS funds were mysteriously misdirected. By the time the sec was ready to indict Vesco, the financier was gone, having taken his loot and his family, his yacht and his planes, to Costa Rica...
...being held in Wichita, Kansas, on bombmaking charges -- remains unclear, the evidence linking them to the blast appears to be growing. Agents found a receipt for a ton of fertilizer in Terry Nichols' house; the purchase was made in Kansas under an alias, but Time has learned that a salesman picked out Terry Nichols from a lineup. The receipt has McVeigh's fingerprints on it. According to a government source, the same phony name was used to purchase a second ton of fertilizer. Agents have also found evidence that Nichols bought 55 gal. of diesel fuel...
...clergy inspires a big shrug. Why shouldn't homosexuals (and women) be priests? These days, they are among the few who want to be. The real issue, blithely dodged in this movie, is the Catholic sin of giving scandal. A priest is, after all, Christ's salesman and stand-in. He need not be infallible--since he is human and conceived in sin-but he'd damn well better be discreet. So it is one thing for old Matthew to keep a woman quietly in the rectory; it is another for young Greg to go cruising...