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...congressional investigators delineated an empire of larceny, kickbacks, assumed names and secret accounts in foreign banks that was allegedly run by Wooldridge and four fellow topkicks. The sergeants, some of whom were custodians of servicemen's clubs, were said to have skimmed $350,000 a year from club slot machines in Germany and used the money to set up their own company, Maredem, Ltd., to sell supplies at inflated prices to clubs in Viet Nam. Maredem's partners, who somehow managed to get transfers as a group, became custodians of the clubs in Viet Nam. Thus they, allegedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The Military Mafia | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...Francisco. Anyone with a checking account at the bank can withdraw $25 simply by inserting a plastic identification card and punching a code number on a ten-digit keyboard. The machine verifies the information by means of electronic sensors, then slips the money to the customer through another slot. It keeps the card, which is returned by mail. The withdrawal is deducted from the depositor's checking account, along with a 1% service charge. If a card holder punches the wrong code number or tries to use an invalid card, a lighted notice tells him to try again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: And Now the Cashomat | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...Leslie Uggams Show, and its star, contradicted most of the week's other evidence that the industry is immune to progress. The black singer, after all, made her TV debut in the patronizing Beulah series and then sang along with Mitch before taking over the Smothers' time slot last week. Now, at 26, she has emerged with a sweet, sassy authority that is just right for a variety-hour headlmer. She sang Those Were the Days with a panache that made the Mary Hopkin original seem lifeless. She played willing straight girl to Impressionist David Frye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Old Wrinkles | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...rebellious daughter of a Senator) have to create their own world in a sort of college-age Lord of the Flies. In the opener, they played Hobbes with themselves and plausibility. The life of the series should be nasty, brutish and-considering New People's kamikaze time slot opposite Laugh-In and Here's Lucy-short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Old Wrinkles | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

Middle guard, usually a Harvard strongpoint, is empty this year, and Vic Piotrowski and Eliot Nierman, both up from the JV's, are fighting it out for the regular slot...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: A Look Ahead to Harvard Football '69 | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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