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Machine-Gun Burst. Sporkin sees the violations as "a blight on our great economic system. We've got to stop it." He came by his love of justice from his father, a Philadelphia judge. After honing his business instincts by becoming a C.P.A. and a lawyer, Sporkin joined the SEC in 1962, quickly gaining a reputation as a fierce investigator. When the job of top cop came open, Sporkin was a natural for it. But neither his superiors nor his wife nor three children have ever been able to make him look like a businessman-or a lawyer either...
...Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 53, also of South Carolina. When only a girl, managing her absent father's large plantation with what one friend called "a fertile brain for scheming," Eliza decided to start cultivating West Indian indigo. At first she suffered setbacks from frost and insect blight, but within seven years, she was able to produce an indigo dye of sufficient quality to export to England. Thanks to Eliza's pioneering, indigo was one of the southern colonies' greatest exports last year. South Carolina alone produced a crop worth about...
...terrible blight is creeping through the Iowa cornfields. "It's what they call brittle dialogue," explains Ma Sigafoos, an entrepreneurial food franchiser who hawks home cooking under the brand name of Land's Sakes. "It's come from the East, and is working its way West, just like the Rocky Mountain tick coming the other way." A prize victim of this plague of sophistication is Farmer Herkimer ("Heck") Brown, Ma's son-in-law, who has taken up with a fast crowd in Middle City. Heck now wears E.E. Cummings T shirts, affects an "inner-city...
...keep them clustered in the Times Square area. Midtown businessmen are pushing just as hard to get the porn out of Times Square. The League of New York Theaters and Producers is pleading with first-run moviehouses not to show porn films, on the grounds that the spreading porn blight is hurting business at legitimate Broadway theaters. W. Barry McCarthy, corporate communications director of the New York Times, located just off Times Square, argues that porn shops and massage parlors are "an enormous developer of crime," a magnet for the blight that is choking midtown...
John J. Courtney, who has lived in an Irish working-class neighborhood just northwest of the Radcliffe Quad for all of his 36 years, feels that the College always considered his neighborhood somewhat of a "blight." Now that he's running for city council, he hopes that both the Independents and the Cambridge Convention '75 slate will find him to be a bit of a blight himself...