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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than 900 people, including the Governor, the attorney general, 80 legislators and top business and community leaders signaled their outrage by crowding into the Church of the Beatitudes of the United Church of Christ for Bolles' funeral services. Observed one high-ranking Arizona official: "You cannot have the sort of systematic fraud and swindling that we have without the complicity of some top business and political figures...
...Paul Getty once kept a pay phone at his English mansion, but he wasn't the sort to nickel and dime his women−except possibly his wives. The oil billionaire was married and divorced five times before he died this month at 83, but his will mentioned only No. 5−Louise Lynch Getty of Santa Monica, Calif., a singer who wed Getty in 1939 and gets $55,000 a year for life. Eleven other women shared in Getty's largesse, including a German countess, a French art dealer, Getty's Nicaraguan companion Rosabella Burch...
...shot in Shawscope color and shown in 143 Shaw-owned theaters, attract 250,000 people a day from Hong Kong to Jakarta, plus thousands more in Chinatowns around the world. Shaw Brothers grind out 40 titles a year (newest crop: Black Magic, Killer Clans, Five Shaolin Masters)−a sort of column A, column B menu of Oriental weepers with suicidal beauties, or Eastern Westerns featuring Kung Fu Mandarins...
...Letters to nearly a thousand top U.S. corporations asking for contributions have produced little cash, and the $40,000 that has been spent to date on Noah II has come, according to Walsh, largely from quarters and dollars sent by schoolchildren. "Perhaps the United Nations should take over this sort of work," he says sadly. "For us, it is the last such roundup...
...Puerto Rico, Ford will be using a carrot and stick. The carrot will be the promise of the sort of support that led the U.S. to make available $2 billion of the $5.3 billion line of credit extended to Britain this month to help prop up the sagging pound, which has so far been successful. The stick will be the clear understanding that such financial support will be forthcoming for governments only on condition that they act swiftly to put their domestic economic houses in order...