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...backslapping, bearlike Virgil David Dardi, 57, paced nervously in Manhattan's West Street jail, unable to raise $100,000 bail. He had just been sentenced to seven years in prison for his part in one of the most ingeniously bizarre stock swindles in modern history-after the longest criminal trial in U.S. Federal Court history (TIME, Feb. 22). The activities of Dardi's United Dye & Chemical Corp. cost some 3,000 small stockholders across the U.S. an estimated $5,000,000 and involved an improbable cast of Las Vegas gamblers, Wall Street respectables and well-known swindlers...
...Best Motion Picture: Lawrence of Arabia, The Longest Day, The Music Man, Mutiny on the Bounty, and To Kill a Mockingbird...
...workaday world that they had nearly forgotten while serving as jurors in the trial of U.S. v. Samuel Garfield, et al. in Manhattan's Foley Square courthouse. As jurors, they had seen 1,890 exhibits and heard 109 witnesses give 26,731 pages of testimony in the longest criminal trial ever held before a federal court jury. It lasted just 23 days less than a year...
Leinsdorf uses no baton and conducts with a stiff and angular style. His dress coat reaches nearly to his ankles, and from the audience he looks like an aging seaman sending semaphore signals to some distant ship. The Boston has the longest season of all (50 weeks), including Tanglewood in the summer and-for the 92 members willing to play Viennese waltzes and champagne music-a stint with Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops...
...stadium seating 46,000; our coliseum which will seat 10,000; I wish you could see the 35,000 acres of water known as the Great Pearl River reservoir, which will be completed within the next year and see the beautiful, scenic, historic Gulf Coast where we have the longest man-made beach in the world--A 23 mile sand beach...