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...case that ignited Lynch's investigation. Last fall, two teen-age girls were taken forcibly from their dates and raped by several members of the gang. From 104 California sheriffs, district attorneys and chiefs of police, Lynch amassed a mountain of evidence about Hell's Angels, the thrust of which shows that the group has more than lived up to its sinister moniker...
...supplies carried up by rockets of reasonable size. A vehicle designed for flight in a vacuum will be assembled and fueled aloft, and after it is fully checked out, its trained crew will arrive. When it takes off for the moon, the vehicle will not need much extra thrust since the platform on which it stands is already moving around the earth at 18,000 m.p.h. The ship's structure can be light since it will not have to battle its way through the dense lower atmosphere...
...novel about American business. Stereotyped characters are only a part of the problem. The real obstacle is that novelists rarely know corporation life. They have trouble giving their characters meaningful work to do at their jobs. They have no idea of the subtle moral dilemmas the business organization can thrust at a man. Therefore the novelists fall back on bribery and sexual pandering, though these blatant corruptions are 1) unconvincing on realistic grounds because they occur only in a few grubby corners of the business world, and 2) uninteresting on fictional grounds because nobody concerned has any doubt of their...
...hasn't been embarrassed from time to time by the disgraceful and frenzied interviews of public figures that are put on the air. Hordes of radio and television reporters, augmented by photographers and reporters of the newspapers, literally swamp the person being interviewed. Hand-carried microphones are thrust into his face from all directions; he is often half-blinded by the television lights; questions are shouted at him simultaneously from two or three reporters. All too often everybody gets the same treatment-be he a high-ranking Government official, a visiting foreign dignitary, an athlete, a hardened criminal...
...Alfred Schaefer, 60, chief of the Union Bank of Switzerland, and by common consent that nation's foremost commercial banker, was protesting the notoriety thrust upon Swiss banks by the recent troubles of Britain's pound. Long the world's favorite haven for nervous money, Swiss banks have amassed so much of it (fully one-fifth of their $16.6 billion in deposits comes from foreigners) that when their international clientele decided to lighten its sterling holdings, the banks became heavily though unhappily involved in the run on the pound. The Swiss themselves contributed $80 million...