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...training (mostly showing films) for unarmed guards, Wackenhut, the third largest guard vendor, boasts that its minimum has been 16 hours since the 1970s. Yet two former executives who recently left the firm insist that the real figure was far lower. "Four hours was pretty much it," says Frank Bisogno, who ran Wackenhut's New York City office until he left in 1989. "If you were required by the customer, you would do more. But if the manager could avoid expending a nonbillable cost such as that, he would avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Thugs in Uniform | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...achieves this feat because Author Louisa Burns-Bisogno and Director Marvin J. Chomsky eventually give Leenie the chance to do something. She can denounce the doctors who misdiagnosed her pregnancy, or argue with a sister, or even question the motives of her loving husband (Joseph Campanella, strong, caring and comfortable in the role). Then those translucent eyes can light with pain and determination. The mouth can fix in its querulous schoolgirl smile. The rage can break - and Redgrave come alive. It may not be Jean Brodie, but it is surely prime- By Richard Corliss

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Prime Time | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...said the Government, that Pucci had acted as a spy inside the Vatican and reported on anti-Fascist activities of the Catholic Action group. (In 1931, Pope Pius XI, fearing a Vatican leak, had sent Msgr. Spellman to Paris to publish the famed anti-Fascist Encyclical Non Abbi-amo Bisogno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pipeline Closed | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...neglect Vatican City. About the time that Pius XI appointed Pacelli Prefect of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's (guardian of Vatican buildings), Mussolini banned the Catholic Boy Scouts and started to wipe out Catholic Action in Italy. The Pope wrote an encyclical (Non abbiamo bisogno) attacking the Fascist action, but since the Fascists controlled all the telegraph lines and cables to the outside world, Mussolini was in a position to read and reply to the encyclical before the world read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peace & the Papacy | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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