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...convinced they were safe from such summonses. The high-rolling lifestyle they enjoyed was sharply straitened by Internal Revenue Service agents, who carefully checked any discrepancies between reported income and visible spending. Most of the scrutiny was the result of a growing public clamor for a curb on Mob activity???not Joe Colombo's public posturing. But Mafia chieftains blamed him nonetheless, and at least one prominent Mafioso believed that Colombo and the league had netted him a grand jury subpoena...
...Clumeck says: "I cannot imagine spending seven days a week with this fellow. After a threeor four-day trip with him, I have to take a few days off. He is just that intense and probing." As a man of a reflective nature, however, Norton Simon knows that neither activity???nor acquisitiveness?are ends in themselves. "He is not interested in leaving a huge fortune," says U.C.L.A.'s Murphy. "He thinks each generation should take care of its own. He has extracted his wealth from society and he intends to give it back...
Cutting Teeth. One man coordinates, advises and stimulates all this activity???and the array of civic groups, politicians, architects, builders and real estate men necessary to keep it going...
...project called El Dorado Hills, which in 15 or 20 years will be a network of twelve villages with a combined population of 75,000 in apartments, as well as houses ranging in price from $20,000 to $100,000. Each village will be centered around a single recreational activity???boating, golf, riding, swimming...
Opened in Cleveland's huge Public Auditorium last week was the 1935 Machine Tool Show, first that the industry has felt prosperous enough to hold since 1929. The volume of machine tool orders ?one of the best indicators of industrial activity???has been mounting sharply of late, and the industry now talks of a better year than 1929. Though the Show has been planned for about a year, tool makers grew happier as the months passed, and by last week had assembled the greatest display of power & precision in history...