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This is entirely appropriate, for the movie's subject is superbrainy young people, non-nerd division. They have been recruited to a double-dome school at the M.I.T.-Caltech level by slick Professor Jerome Hathaway (William Atherton), who has an explain-it-all science show on TV and a Government contract to build a particularly unsavory laser-powered weapon. His students do all the hard work, while he glides, snakelike, through the corridors of power. Among his drones are Mitch (Gabe Jarret), an innocent 15-year-old prodigy; Kent (Robert Prescott), who is teacher's pet, half toady, half Gestapo...
Public pressure has prompted Houston police to develop one of the nation's largest antiporn squads, with eleven officers, and has given Houston courts the dubious honor of apparently leading the U.S. in the number of porn cases tried (200) and the percentage of defendants convicted (91%). Sergeant William Brown, head of the city's vice squad, calls the antiporn crusade his city's "No. 1 priority." Says Brown: "Twenty years ago, all we saw was black-and-white movies. Now we're seeing live sex onstage. What's next? Sex with children...
...battlefield. In Viet Nam, the questionable enemy "body counts" served up by senior military leaders--many of them academy graduates--"cut right against the integrity we were taught at West Point," concedes General Palmer, a deputy commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam. (His much criticized superior, General William Westmoreland, '36, was a cadet first captain and later superintendent of the academy.) The Viet Nam War is an awkward subject at West Point. In class, cadets are taught that the military leadership was not blameless, but most subscribe to a "stabbed in the back" theory. Says Cadet Borgerding: "The Army...
...near legendary windfall was made in a public offering by William Simon, Treasury Secretary in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. In 1982 a Simon-led group of investors put up $1 million of their own money and borrowed $79 million to buy the Gibson greeting-card company from RCA. They turned Gibson into a private firm and reorganized its operations. Then, just 18 months later, they sold $290 million worth of the company's stock to the public. Simon alone earned more than $15 million and wound up holding shares in Gibson worth about $50 million...
American Express was hardly selling off one of its crown jewels. In the past 2½ years, Fireman's had underwriting losses of $1.8 billion. William McCormick, formerly a top American Express executive, has been Fireman's president since December 1983. Last June the subsidiary was put up for sale, but no corporation wanted to buy it. "They couldn't sell it to anyone else, so they sold it to the public," explains one analyst...