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...Casino Control Commission, the New Jersey legislature and the Philadelphia city council. When the FBI sting ended, its supervisors alleged that the honey pot of Arab money had attracted one U.S. Senator, seven members of the House and two dozen state and local officials or their corrupt cronies-all stung by facing possible charges of accepting bribes or being caught in an illegal conflict of interest...
...were stung. The scams ranged from Operation Tarpit in Los Angeles, where the expenditure of $450,000 bought some $42 million in hot goods, with 256 arrests, to Operation Lobster in Boston, where agents recovered 17 huge truckloads of stolen goods that were stuffed with $3 million in loot. As a result, Boston area hijackings dropped from about 50 a year to only two since this sting ended in March...
...Boston College. Stung by academic suspensions, three top seniors--forward Joe Mullen, defenseman Joe Augustine and goalie Paul Skidmore--Len Ceglarski's crew had plummeted in the year's first half. The Beanpot offered a chance to turn things around; B.C. did by upsetting Northeastern, 7-2, then pushing B.U. to the brink in one of the tourney's most exciting finals ever. While they just missed out on a playoff berth, the revitalized Eagles finished the schedule strongly, grabbing seven out of nine Division One contests, including a 5-3 grudge match win over...
Quite a few jewelers have been stung. The replacement cost of their inventories has risen dramatically, but not many shoppers have been willing to buy at the new prices. Because carriage trade customers continue to splurge, Cartier, Tiffany and other top-line stores are not suffering, but the rest of the retail business has fallen off badly. Laments Terry Weinshank, vice president of Delage Jewelers, a supplier to 500 stores throughout the Midwest: "The retail jewelry business is dying right before our eyes. In the last couple of weeks we have seen six of our customers close up, and more...
...setting is a sunny resort out of an oldtime picture book, but the drama is full of ominous shadows. Noel Black's unsentimental direction captures Lardner's subtle point of view, and so does the controlled acting of James Whitmore and Teresa Wright. When this couple is stung by bitterness, jealousy and regret, they never quite know what is happening: instead of stormy scenes, Whitmore and Wright offer flickers of anguish...