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...When I turned the pages of those volumes, my doubts gradually dissolved. I am now satisfied they are authentic." He said he was prepared "to stake my reputation" on their authenticity. Newsweek Consultant Gerhard Weinberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill went to the same bank vault and reported that "my preliminary feeling was that they looked genuine." But he had reservations and said that much more study would be needed to be certain...
William Alderdice promised last week to "do everything in our power to get the gold and silver to the customers," but he admitted that he had no firm tally of his company's debts. When William Leonard, a court-appointed attorney, opened the vault at IGBE's Fort Lauderdale headquarters he found that "like Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard, it was bare." Or almost bare. Leonard did find a small adding machine and a few wooden blocks painted to look like gold bars...
Aggravating the controversy was Stern's angry charge that Newsweek, after withdrawing a bid to publish the diaries, had unethically broken an agreement to keep secret the material that had been shown to Parker and a paid historical consultant in a Zurich bank vault. The major leak: the content of passages about Hitler's attitude toward Jews and the Holocaust, which Newsweek assessed, but which Stern had not planned to publish until next year. Said Stern's Koch: "That was a nice dirty trick. We would like to sue. We were cheated, and I guarantee Newsweek will...
Freshman Rudy Buntic had one of his most successful days of the season, winning the pole vault with a vault of 15 feet, six inches. Fellow Yardling Doug Boyd won the high jump...
...first frames, when Stevie Wonder croons a pop ballad over images of suburban sunsets, Coppola sets the tone of poetic realism, Hollywood style. The greasers, with their sleek muscles and androgynous faces, display a leonine athleticism as they move through dusty lots or do a graceful, two-handed vault over a chain-link fence. Their camaraderie is familial, embracing, unselfconsciously homoerotic. Left to their better selves, they can easily go all moony over sunsets, quote great swatches of Robert Frost verse, or fall innocently asleep in each other's arms. Their ideal world is both a womb...