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Almost certainly, the recuperating President will win much of what he seeks: a sharp curtailment of the Government's propensity to spend ever more. Yet whether Congress will Peter Sweeney also accept Reagan's bold, if risky, three-year cut in income tax rates for individuals remains in doubt. The outcome could vastly influence the nation's immediate economic future...
...pulled off a scheme to attempt to fix the scores of nine Boston College basketball games during the 1978-79 season. In a first-person account in last week's SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Henry Hill says he bribed three Boston College players, including Co-Captains Ernie Cobb and Jim Sweeney, to shave points so that Hill and his friends in the Tommy Lucchese crime family could gamble successfully against the point spread...
...were charges that almost as a sideline, he had rigged the outcome of Boston College games. According to Hill, he became involved in the scam when a former penitentiary pal introduced him to a friend of a Boston College reserve forward, Rick Kuhn. Kuhn allegedly enlisted the services of Sweeney, an honors graduate who proved to be a sharp negotiator, Hill asserted, indicating games that could easily be rigged and bargaining for payoffs even when the point shaving was unsuccessful...
...Sweeney and Kuhn suggested cutting Cobb in on the deal because, as the team's top scorer, he could most affect their attempts to beat the spread. In fact, of the nine games involved, three times the players were unable to deliver, and the spread held. The deal, Hill contended, was struck at meetings in various Boston hotel rooms and netted the players as much as $2,500 a game. Hill said he cleared some $100,000 in eleven weeks of placing bets on the rigged games. The players deny all of Hill's allegations of payoffs...
Despite its flaws, Sweeney Todd will attract an audience. In this age where we crave "cheap" thrills people will mindlessly spend $25 a seat for a package expertly stuffed with surprises, shocks, and the star appeal of Ms. Lansbury. Using art's name, Messrs. Sondheim and Prince lamentably succumbed to this trend, producing an illconceived, ill-begotten extravaganza. Their estimable talents should not be wasted in this manner...