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...probity and common sense, has seemed to lack the political wiles to tame the county tigers. While he has been able to put through a number of anticorruption measures, he has lost on other key issues, notably his fiscal program and a controversial bill to revive that fading beach dowager, Atlantic City, by permitting casino gambling there. Ironically, if his budget is passed but no new revenue is found, Byrne may end up as the only state employee to get a salary increase: under a measure enacted before he took office, the Governor is due for a raise...
Coppola is clearly at pains to make some of the points he made in The Godfather I again: that the underworld is a business organization; that there are ethnic divisions in it between Jewish mobsters in Miami Beach and Italian ones in Las Vegas; that the distaff side of the family is protected from the unpleasant side of the business; that everyone--including the Godfather--lives in constant danger of sudden death; that the protective function of the Sicilian mafia was not wholly lost in America. But he introduces some new themes as well: the struggle for legitimacy (Michael opens...
Recent visitors to Nixon's Casa Pacifica compound report that his spirits and his health have taken an upturn. Actually, the dwindling staff seems more depressed than the boss. "How much can you walk on the beach?" asked one youthful aide last week. "We have developed a special bond with each other; we depend so much on each other. But it is the bitter life of exile...
...added up to $70,000 and offered impressive evidence that he has displaced Jack Nicklaus as the lord of the links. Nicklaus admits, "Nobody's ever played on the tour as well as Miller is playing now," but he was conceding nothing as he jetted into Pebble Beach for the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am and his first confrontation with Miller this year...
...wife decided to take a golfing trip to Paradise Island, Bahamas, they could have saved $280 by booking into a charter flight and considerably more cash by staying at one of the island's pleasant smaller hotels. Instead, they flew first class and booked into the pricey Britannia Beach Hotel. "I feel inflation like everyone else," says Mrs. Lack. "With the economy tight, I'm not getting a new car this year like I usually do, but we've always taken trips, so why stop now? You can't live in fear...