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Until last week, Powell's most flagrant public sin was his defiance of the New York courts that have sentenced him to a 16-month jail term for contempt (he has consistently refused to pay a defamation judgment won by a Harlem Negro widow). Then, on the eve of the new session, the Negro Congressman was hit from a new direction. Reporting on a three-month investigation of the financial affairs of the House Education and Labor Committee, of which Powell is chairman, House probers concluded that...
...individuals and almost never brilliant organizations," says Italian Physicist Massimo Bernardini. U.S.-style teamwork between research, production and financial men remains the exception-and Europeans still have a lot to learn about advertising and marketing too. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Britain's Minister of Technology, lists "seven new deadly sins" afflicting the British economy, among them "industrial amateurism" and "status hunting." Habitually, corporations pick top managers and directors not for ambition, skill or diligence but for their social qualifications. This sin of amateurism is certainly not confined to Britain...
...still think gambling is a sin, and try to eliminate it; we should probably try not to use the argument that it would remain in the hands of criminals if we legalized it. Both reason and evidence seem to indicate the contrary...
Chiang Kai-shek limped to bed with glee this week anticipating his happiest dreams in years. The reported brawls between rival Communist faction sin Nanking and Shanghai probably spread like wide-fire under those old eye-lids and there he was, standing tall, as his Navy crossed the Taiwan Straits and saved the strife-weary people of the mainland...
Often the purpose is to launch a new enterprise. Manhattan Adman Burt Pence, 28, and Lawyer Todd Merer, 27, invited 2,000 guests to a party in Greenwich Village last week with the theme, "Sin and Soul in the Seventies," featuring a "monster happening" at midnight with a recording of Kate Smith singing The Star-Spangled Banner, a karate exhibition, and chorines in fluorescent tights and gas masks. The party grossed $5,500, and its profits will go to finance a boutique the pair hopes to open. If they don't have enough for that, they will...