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Among the questions before the panel: Was the Climaco firm appointed examiner in the White Motor bankruptcy (possible fee: $1 million) as a payoff for hiring Nephew Gino? The firm was chosen by Bankruptcy Judge Mark Schlachet, a Battisti protege and the son-in-law of one of Battisti's close friends. Schlachet resigned last year while under investigation for improperly giving high-paying court appointments to friends...
...humble castle at 704 Houser Street in Queens, N.Y., Archie Bunker, played unfalteringly by Carroll O'Connor, entered into the American consciousness on a chilly Tuesday night in January 1971, when a nervous CBS first aired All in the Family. Archie, Wife Edith, Daughter Gloria and Son-in-Law Mike were a nuclear family born out of fission as they grappled with such TV taboos as racism, impotence, abortion, rape, homosexuality and alcoholism. When the three other principals (played by Jean Stapleton, 58, Sally Struthers, 34, and Rob Reiner, 38) left, O'Connor, 57, bought a neighborhood...
...land." Among the burdens Sir Arthur must bear is his older daughter Dolly's determination to marry Bernard Ross, a Liberal M.P. with a mysterious past: although born in England, he spent part of his childhood in the U.S. Sir Arthur disapproves of his new son-in-law and of Parliament, which he calls "the talking shop." He is further nettled by his son's marriage to the daughter of a financier, whose occupation Sir Arthur views as "almost as low as being in trade." The old man also rails at the spread of public education...
Adding to Khomeini's troubles, police in West Germany arrested the Ayatullah's son-in-law, Sadegh Tabatabai, 39, upon his arrival in Düsseldorf two weeks ago. A "special ambassador," Tabatabai helped negotiate the release of the U.S. hostages in 1981. He was charged with illegal possession of 3.3 lbs. of raw opium...
...Surgeons in 1962-63. Davis criticized shoddy medical training, which, he said, meant that half the operations in the U.S. were performed by inadequate surgeons. An outspoken political conservative, he influenced Nancy (whom he adopted when she was 14 after he married her mother) and later his son-in-law Ronald Reagan. Said Nancy of him last May: "He taught me discipline by example...