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...kind of chatty Virgil who takes his readers on a tour of these monsters, pausing before them for ponderous comments like "Oh, the mysteries of life." It is not that the light touch is beyond Del Castillo. A felicitous phrase occasionally escapes him: they had "the habit of sprinkling theft and graft with holy water." It is just that he cannot refrain from constantly clubbing his characters senseless. In a matter of three pages, he manages to accuse a Spanish small businessman of "cynicism," "pharisaism." "obduracy," "unctuousness," "cravenness," "priggishness" and "cruelty." The reader's sympathy mulishly goes...
...hometown of Hattiesburg. While he was talking to Mississippi Southern's president, local law officials "discovered" illegal liquor in his car and arrested him. Convicted and fined on the liquor offense, Kennard was still appealing the case when he was convicted as an accessory in the theft of five sacks of chicken mash. His alleged accomplice, an illiterate 14-year-old Negro who said he had actually stolen the stuff and turned it over to Kennard, was given a suspended sentence and set free. But Kennard was given the maximum sentence-seven years in prison...
Beckwith told questioners that he got a job as chauffeur and valet for Bernstein through "mutual friends" after deserting the Marine Corps in September, had lammed off with the Lincoln for a three weeks' toot. Said absent-minded Maestro Bernstein, who apparently forgot to report the theft: "All I know is that he let me out at a recital on Nov. 24 and never did pick me up again...
...Legal Theft. Japanese industrialists complain that they lose millions of dollars yearly because spies pass the plans for their secret new products to competitors. But there is no law in Japan against stealing trade secrets so long as no patents are violated, and products still in development are naturally not patented. "The only way to operate," says...
...failures, and established a new agency, the Council of the National Economy, headed by Economic Boss Veniamin E. Dymshits. Khrushchev also set up a new national construction monopoly designed to eliminate the squandering of money and labor in regional building projects. Almost equally wasteful, complained Khrushchev, are bribery and theft by "leading officials," who stole $61 million in money and materials during the first six months of the year. To fight such economic crimes, Khrushchev ordered the creation of a top-level committee staffed by trained inspectors and volunteer snoops...