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...showed that 22.3% of the agents held law degrees, and 9.1% were accountants. Trained accountants are valuable in tracking embezzlement and other financial crimes. Teachers, former military men, scientists and local law-enforcement men are also heavily irecruited by the bureau. Applicants must survive a grueling written test and stiff personal interviews and submit to a penetrating investigation of their background. A close relative with a criminal record or a few bad raps from neighbors can eliminate the applicant...
Facing increasingly stiff competition from the other participating schools, Harvard faded slightly from 16th place Thursday to 20th in the standings at the conclusion of yesterday evening's finals. Indiana, despite some inconsistent performances. Continues to hold a comfortable lead over the University of Southern California for first place. The Hoosiers' two-day total now stands at 233, with USC second with 194, and host Tennessee third with...
Obviously aware of the emotional flames that would be fanned by stiff sentences, Judge Leland Nielsen last week announced, "I am not going to make martyrs out of them by sending them to jail." He reversed Hohenstein's conviction and ordered a new trial for him. Nielsen gave the others suspended sentences and probation for six to 36 months, plus fines ranging from $50 to $1,000. Meanwhile, Heck has sold his San Diego office to repay IRS and has reopened in nearby El Cajon...
...life; it generates kindness, and consolidates society." Presumably he was thinking of picquet or bezique, rather than an all-night killer session at seven-card stud, but Johnson's point has been true for centuries. Yet no player today could guess, from his impersonal deck with its stiff, bright kings, queens and jacks, mass-produced and slippery for fast dealing, how complicated the ancestry of the modern playing card was-or how various and fine in craftsmanship. Discovering this is one of the pleasures of the Yale University Library's current show in New Haven...
...voters were unexcited, it was because the party leaders were uninspiring. Socialist Mitterrand, who is engaging in person but a stiff and weary figure on a TV screen, bored French audiences by repeatedly assuring them that the united-left program-nationalization of "strategic industries," banks and insurance companies-is "neither socialism nor Communism" but something he described as "economic democracy." Although many Frenchmen agree with Servan-Schreiber's proposals for decentralizing power within France, few share his sense of urgency about spearheading "a European new deal...