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...herring reference to the Weatherman that brought the FBI into the case at the outset. The alleged conspiracy sounds something like a Mannix plot on TV-with a few Fellini-esque wrinkles. According to the indictment, Moeller paid $50,000 in company funds to David Bubar, 47, a trim, wavy-haired Baptist minister and self-proclaimed clairvoyant from Memphis who purports to have foreseen a variety of specific deaths, illnesses and other disasters. Bubar met Moeller about ten years ago, became his spiritual guru and ultimately a director of Ohio Decorative Products. He supposedly served Sponge Rubber Products...
Down she slides: not a Blue Ribander, evidently; smaller than we were led to expect, and lighter; but so buoyant, so fresh and trim in line, that we only realize later and with the mildest disappointment that this Pride of the Clyde is in fact a yacht...
...dispute that led to the walkout began with a February announcement by President Donald Hornig, a science adviser to President Johnson, that Brown would have to trim its budget by 15% and its faculty by 16.5% over the next three years. The school was facing a $4 million deficit and could no longer afford to support its full academic program, one of the most innovative in the Ivy League. A student committee met with the administration but could not work out a compromise. When it became apparent that the university was adamant, the students voted last week to boycott their...
...easily shouldered daily trading volume that would have smothered many of them a few years ago. Even so ardent a foe of negotiated commissions as James J. Needham, chief of the New York Stock Exchange, concedes that brokers are ready for Mayday. Says he: "They're about as trim as they could...
...points out Gore Vidal, who pieced the story together accurately for his historical novel Burr, without aid of court records. "I have never seen them. I've just gone on other people's word." Of Burr's long-lived virility, Vidal added: "Burr was a small, trim little man, and small, trim little men last longer sexually. In fact, they last longer in general than more corpulent capon types, like George Washington, who seem to have no sexual vitality and a relatively short life...