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Last week investigators moved in on Wanzig, and got four hospital employees fired as accomplices. (Said a Chicago cop: "This confirms my thought that confirmed horse players can find a home anywhere.") But right there the law ran into a dead end. Wanzig's defense against prosecution is airtight: he can plead not guilty by reason of insanity...
...founding his own auditing firm, he later took on the additional job of Virginia State auditor. Virginia remembers him for uncovering 100 cases of corruption and fraud, sending a county clerk and five county treasurers to jail, and setting up an annual system for county accounts that was so airtight that bonding companies slashed premiums for public officials...
...reciprocal trade bill in his committee. The committee, said Dan, was "too busy" to deal with the bill-until the White House and congressional leaders gave their word that they would permit no such trick amendment. Dan won. "At my request," he announced last week, "I have now received airtight assurances from the White House, from the Senate and House leadership, that they will oppose any attempt ... to amend trade agreements legislation with an extension of the discriminatory and unfair excess profits tax." Then he found he was not too busy after all to call a committee meeting...
...avert such misadventures, the Air Force uses a "partial pressure suit" made like a skintight union suit of strong, greenish material, with an airtight helmet. When the cabin air pressure falls too low, an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the helmet at about ten Ibs. pressure per square inch. It also inflates rubber bladders along the wearer's limbs and body, making the suit even tighter. This enables the man to breathe and keeps gas bubbles from forming in his blood. He stays conscious longer and has a chance to bring his damaged plane down to inhabitable...
...nearly five years Williams has rocked the country again & again with scandals in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He is no sensation monger. He carefully waits until he thinks his case is airtight, then submits it to the man or the office he is about to attack, promising to print any denial or rebuttal in the Congressional Record along with his charge. Williams says he has never made an accusation of crime that has not been followed by an indictment. He works alone (his only "investigator" is a girl secretary). Many of his leads have been picked up and developed...