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...five years the Bridgeport, Conn., city government and police force had been under extensive federal investigation. Apparently frustrated by the lack of results, the FBI decided to try an old-fashioned sting. The bait was Thomas Marra Jr., 28, a convicted car thief awaiting sentencing. Marra's father and uncle held a $100,000-a-year contract from Bridgeport to tow stolen cars-or did until last May, when motorists complained that equipment had been pilfered from the recovered autos. The FBI plan: Marra would offer Police Superintendent Joseph Walsh $30,000 to reinstate the contract. Walsh agreed...
Some companies do operate effective in-house training and apprenticeship programs, but the cost is high. At Jenkins Bros, in Bridgeport, Conn., it takes an estimated $20,000 and up to four years of on-the-job training to develop a journeyman machinist. Cincinnati Milacron, the nation's largest machine toolmaker (1980 sales: $816 million), cranks out no more than ten journeymen machinists a year from its own apprenticeship program...
...legal self-counseling movement has a father figure, it is Norman Dacey, a retired estate planner who in 1965 spent $22,000 of his own money to publish How to Avoid Probate! He went door to door to bookstores in his home town, Bridgeport, Conn., and a few copies found their way to Brentano's in New York City, where the book was an instant success. Crown Publishers bought the rights, and Dacey shot to the top of the bestseller lists, ultimately selling 1.5 million copies. He was also No. 1 on many lawyers' hit lists...
wife of 34 years and mother of their seven children; in Bridgeport, Conn...
Santiago Martinez Bridgeport, Conn...