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TIME has learned that since last November the Securities and Exchange Commission has been quietly investigating Firestone. In a thrust that could be applied to other companies, the SEC is weighing whether firms must report to shareholders actions that officers know might risk civil penalties-such as discharging pollutants or making faulty products. Thus the SEC is interviewing Firestone officers and probing company records to see whether top executives knew about and should have disclosed the 500's problems much earlier...
Firestone confirms that it is under investigation by the SEC. Says a company spokesman: "From the questions they are asking, they are trying to determine just who in management was aware, and whether we disclosed in a timely manner. We are confident that the SEC will find we disclosed properly." The unexpected resignation of Di Federico, 57, he added, "was for personal reasons...
...walled-in, eleven-bedroom villa ringed by cypress and bougainvillaea, the Shah resumed his tennis at the posh Cuernavaca Racquet Club and spoke briefly to newsmen. What of events back home? "Obviously, my heart is bleeding." One more move, north of the border? "It would depend on whether we were welcome." Henry Kissinger, for one, certainly believes they should be. Last week he admitted pressing Mexican authorities to issue the Shah his 90-day tourist visa. Said he: "I felt the U.S. had a moral obligation to stand by a man who had been a friend...
Dale is playing a faggot's faggot, but never fear: his manly chest and hairy legs are in full and virile view whether he is impersonating Marlene Dietrich in her black-garter outfit from The Blue Angel or banana-topped Carmen Miranda or dear, dear Noël Coward. Dale is the captain of a kinky service entertainment unit attached to beleaguered British troops who are in the process of losing Singapore...
Travelers are still waiting to see if the inconvenience of the gas lines is going to disappear or grow worse. In the meantime, some are beginning to wonder a little whether the whole idea of the vacation-an institution sacrosanct in American habit-makes much sense...