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Avco-Enbassy's Levine Quits, Forms Independent Company

By HERBERT G. LUFT

(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)

HOLLYWOOD — Joseph E.
Levine, has resigned as pres-
ident of Ayco-Embassy Pic-
tures to re-enter independent'

film production and distri-
bution at age 69.
At a press conference in
Beverly Hills, Levine said
he believes that he can func-
tion more effectively as an

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individual making his own
decisions. Yet he expressed
mixed emotions about leav-
ing the label of Embassy
Pictures behind, a trade
mark connected with him for
39 years, with a total of 491
pictures to his credit either
as distributor, producer or
both.
The career of Levine reads
like a Horatio Alger story.
Born in Boston, Levine was
working from the time he
was 14 running the gamut of
occupations from shining
shoes to managing a restau-
rant.
He was a Boston film dis-
tributor, and in 1959, Levine
acquired the epic "Hercules"
in Italy and spent $1,500,000
\ on promotion, saturating the
country. He grossed, jointly
with Warner Bros., more
than $9,000,000 on the inex-
pensively made film.
When Levine saw the rough
cut of Vittorio De Sica's

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NEW YORK i(JTA) —
James McGuire, president of
the United States Soccer
Football Association, has
joined the growing list of
sports officials who are crit-
ical of the "recentaction tak-
en by the Asian Soccer -As-
sociation to ban Israel from
future participation in the
Asian Games.
McGuire, a former mem-
ber of the executive board of
the International Football As-
sociation (FIFA) has advised
the U.S. Committee Sports
for Israel, that he will do
everything in his power to
protest the action of the
Asian Football Association
and will correspond - with
members of FIFA concerning
his protest.
A resolution was passed
Sept. 15 in Teheran to- end
Israel's participation in, soc-
cer competition. The vote was
J7-13, with six abstentions,
less than the_two-thirds ma-
jority which the association's
rules require for the ouster
of a member.
"International sportsman-
ship has suffered another

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of Joseph E. Levine Presents,
the veteran film man ac-
quired the Italian-made "The
Night Porter," a concentra-
tion camp story made in
Italy with Dirk Bogarde and
Charlotte B,empling opening
in New York this -month.
Levine has received a mul-
titude of awards; he is the
recipient of the Huthan Re-
lations Award of the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai
Brith and was honored by
the Shomrim Society of Mas-
sachusetts. He served as
national chairman of the
MOtion Picture Industry cam-
paign for the National Con-
ference of Christians and
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blow by the deplorable action
taken at the Asian Games by
FEATURING
the Asian Football Associa-
"BIG - BIRD" HEADING A
tion," said Nat Holman, pres-
CONTINGENT OF MUPPET
ident of the U.S. Committee
`CHARACTERS FROM
Sports for Israel. Politics, he
"SESAME STREET"
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preserve the spirit of fair
SHIPSTADS ICI FOLLIES
'Way without which interna-
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tional sports competition
would become a hollow -mock- WITH
ery."
SPECIAL GUEST sTAJANET LYNN
Members of the U.S. Com-
AMERICA'S
mittee, many of whom are
SWEETHEART"
leaders in other sports organ-
izations, are urging all ap-
propriate national and inter-
national sports bodies to con-
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demn the ouster voted at
Teheran, to censure all dele-
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iate, vigorous steps for the
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reversal of this latest - Arab
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FIFA scheduled a meeting
on the action, but already
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displeasure over the vote.
Prince Guham Raza of Iran,
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who is president of the feder-
ation, said, "Criticism was
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made against teams that
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