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...Philadelphia. GE pleaded guilty to defrauding the Air Force of $800,000 in 1980 on a project to upgrade the re-entry vehicles on Minuteman missiles. After its indictment eight weeks ago, GE had consistently denied any wrongdoing. The company suddenly changed its story last week on learning that Roy Baessler, a manager on the Minuteman work, had admitted to investigators that he knowingly participated in a scheme to bilk the Pentagon...
During his two-day stay, White behaved much as politicians will in media- intensive situations: he shook hands with the men, posed for pictures, gave speeches and signed autographs. He gave a cattle brand in the shape of Texas to Colonel Roy Kimerling, commander of the joint task force participating in the games. Surrounded by ten Army guards, White even inspected a municipal project, a new well dug by his Guardsmen...
Wheeler wisely cast actors strong on the comic aspect. John Bottoms moves smoothly from Roy Orbison raptures to sputtering outrage to weary depression; he can't quite bring off the tender pathos written into the script, but few could do any better. Stehlin turns a stock soap opera part (the idealistic male ingenue) into a combination of Matthew Broderick and Woody Allen acting out a Roy Rogers fantasy; he suffers worst from the capricious plotting, and can't expand his stage presence into a full three dimensions...
However, the council did reinstate Christopher Roy '86, who had also been expelled for his attendance record...
...Roy White...