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When Wedtech set its sights on a multimillion-dollar Army contract for 6- h.p. engines in 1981, for instance, San Francisco Attorney E. Robert Wallach was hired as a Wedtech consultant. Wallach, an old friend and lawyer of then Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese's, was allegedly given some $500,000 worth of company stock over several years in addition to a retainer for his services. For several months Wallach sent detailed memos to Meese concerning Wedtech's efforts to win the engine contract...
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...Partly the tale is Cocoon with cojones. The ) two old poops take an even harder line with the young people who want them to act their age than the retirees in last year's film did. Mostly, though, Tough Guys is a lot of fun, particularly when Eli Wallach, as a furious, nearsighted hit man, is on the scene. Maybe the script by James Orr and Jim Cruickshank is a little flabby around the middle, and maybe Jeff Kanew's direction is a little wobbly on its pins toward the end, but those are forgivable, perhaps inevitable, flaws...
...flapping of prehistoric winds and the crawling of spiders as they descend on a small New England town. The latest Warner tapes are described by Deutsch as a "new version of old-time radio," complete with scores and sounds. Chaim Potok's The Chosen (Warner), read by Eli Wallach, is augmented by news broadcasts, crowd noises and mood music; Louis L'Amour's A Trail to the West (Bantam) features hoofbeats and gunshots reminiscent of a 1940s Lone Ranger episode...
...besieged their accountants with questions about the tax plan as they rushed to decide whether to support or condemn the bill, which is scheduled for debate by the full Senate early next month. "I've had to replace my phone handle several times in the past week," quipped Barry Wallach, a partner with the Chicago-based Arthur Andersen accounting firm...