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...could be counted on, without quibbling, to collect or pay out money as problems arose. In addition to the charge of obtaining contributions and secretly and illegally funneling them to candidates, which he pleaded guilty to last week, Kalmbach was one of the bagmen who picked up campaign contributions from milk producers just before the Administration upped milk-price supports in 1971. He paid Donald Segretti some $45,000 in salary and expenses to carry out his campaign of political dirty tricks, and he illegally raised funds and paid out $220,000 to the seven Watergate defendants...
Love is now dying between the judge and the amendment. During the 1960s, he argues, it has served to protect murderers, rapists and bagmen. It has worked to prevent police from getting the information they need to protect life and property. He indicts both legal scholars and the U.S. Supreme Court for turning the Fifth into "an ultimate article of faith in respect to which compromise is impossible...
Hired killers, bagmen, juvenile cops, mysterious servants and religious nuts tumble over one another in Harper, and the convoluted plot demands an audience's unwavering attention. By combining flamboyant suspense with a sunbaked slice of life and lots of good mean fun, Director Smight makes every clue a pleasure to follow...
...British steel in "probably only 50% of the U.S. level." In the port of London, there are 444 different employers of dockworkers--each one is too small to use large scale machinery, each one refuses to merge with the others. The British refer to their salesmen as "spivs," "bagmen", or "touts" and their salesmanship often reflects this disdain. Auto companies tell of suppliers who refuse business because added orders might "upset stability" of production. And the Economist describes a visit to a British plant in which "you will be taken aside to see the real pride of the firm, some...
...recently has been speaking with a strong, anti-big-government voice, last week began talking in the well-modulated tones of its newly elected president, Detroit Trucking Tycoon Walter F. Carey, 58. Unlike his predecessor, Delaware Banker Edwin P. Neilan, who cried out against federal spending and call Congressmen "bagmen," Carey aims "to make the idea of a great business-government partnership less a cliché and more a productive reality" during his one-year term. Carey, who built a $20 million business fiefdom by pioneering the trucking of new cars from plants to dealers and now has interests...