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...from the tape, and at least three witnesses to the kidnaping were said to have identified him by photo as one of the two black men who, accompanied by a young white woman, burst into the Hearst apartment. Authorities were also looking for another prison escapee, The-ro M. Wheeler, 29, a jail acquaintance of DeFreeze's, who at one time was active in a California revolutionary Maoist group known as Venceremos. At week's end an intensified search for the two escapees, both of whom have been at large for months, had turned up nothing...
...evidence-or at minimum have taken advantage of it to enrich themselves by raising prices. Much of the attack focuses on Exxon's executives, ranging downward from Canadian-born Chairman John Kenneth Jamieson (see box following page). Such men are several light-years removed from the vulgar, wheeler-dealer, overnight Texas oil millionaires of popular myth and occasional reality. Still, as successors of Founder John D. Rockefeller, they must contend with memories of the evils of the old Standard Oil Trust. Moreover, Exxon executives are inviting scapegoats simply because their company has more wells, refineries. pipelines and tankers than...
Mileti's use of investor syndicates to buy teams sets him apart from most owners in big-time sport. Even at a time of explosive growth in professional athletics, most front offices have remained a stamping ground for rich in dividuals or families. Mileti is a wheeler-dealer who must borrow before...
...Died. Raymond A. Wheeler, 88, former U.S. Army Chief of Engineers; in Washington, D.C. A West Point graduate, Wheeler began his career during construction of the Panama Canal in 1911, and in the next four decades became one of the U.S. Army's most decorated military engineers. During World War II he supervised construction of the famed Ledo Road, a military supply lane stretching through 478 miles of Asian mountains, jungles and swampland, thereby opening an overland link between India and China. Though officially retired, Wheeler was recalled to service by the U.N. following the 1956 Israeli-Egyptian...
...most common inducement is free tickets. The N.C.A.A permits every player four tickets to each of his team's games-and then winks at the common practice of scalping those tickets. For the recent Sugar Bowl, Alabama Split End Wayne Wheeler hoped to get $100 per seat. At Alabama, the custom is so established that there is an unwritten rule requiring players who still have tickets on Thursdays before games to dump them at any price, so that they can concentrate on practice...