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...major outlay is for television: a 60-second spot, a favorite of candidates in 1968, costs almost $50,000 in prime time. But there are other expensive items that have been added to the well-stocked campaign: computer data banks with voter profiles, professional pollsters, $500-a-day political consultants...
...becoming aware of the importance of preserving the ecology of their coastal areas. Six states have effective legislation that calls for the protection of coastlines; several others are considering such laws. One of the most stringent statutes enacted to date is Connecticut's, which imposes a $1,000-a-day fine on violators who dredge and fill wetlands without a permit, and makes them foot the bill for restoring the coast to its natural state. Delaware Governor Russell W. Peterson was concerned enough about his state's relatively clean shores to promote and sign into law last June...
Beyond bonuses, one of the most fertile areas for chopping is the expense account. "Our business certainly is not what it was before," laments Mario Tucci, owner of Delmonico Restaurant, one of the most expensive watering spots in the Wall Street area. The $75-a-day suites for visiting customers that brokerage houses have maintained in hotels along Central Park South have been dropped...
...abortion on demand" law, the most liberal in the nation, becomes effective this week. It authorizes the operation in the first months of pregnancy provided only that a woman and her own physician agree upon it. Virtually all the state's general, nonsectarian hospitals have been planning for A-day as elaborately, and with as much foreboding, as they would have for Dday. In one sense their fears may be justified. New York City alone expects 50,000 to 100,000 of its residents to apply for abortions each year and faces the possibility that an invasion from outside...
Except for marijuana, Jeffrey has now been clean?off drugs?for several months. "Heroin is a death trip," he says today. "I really enjoyed it. But once you get the habit, you're in trouble. One good friend is in the hospital with an $80-a-day habit. Another is almost dead from hepatitis. Two others I know, one a girl, died from overdoses. Every time you stick that needle in your arm, you're playing with your life...