Word: busted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some 188,500 hard-pressed individuals and companies in the U.S. went to court last year to declare themselves bankrupt. This year the total may reach a record 250,000. Nowhere is the business of going bust booming more than it is in that erstwhile capital of easy living, Los Angeles. Personal bankruptcies rose by more than 18% in the L.A. area last year, and they are already up another 48% in 1975. So it is no real surprise that the busiest bankruptcy lawyer in the nation is headquartered in Los Angeles. He is Hugh Slate, 58, of Slate & Leoni...
...there formed two special units, one to concentrate on drug-ring murders and one on murders committed during robberies or other felony crimes. The payoff has been a solution rate of more than 80% for both categories. Police in Portland, Ore., for their part, have a special unit to bust fencing operations in hopes that burglaries will drop because the swag is harder to get rid of. The rate did indeed drop 16% in the past two years. In New York City, policemen now operate the third largest taxi fleet?some 200 vehicles. It seems taxis make excellent camouflage...
...give me my money and my honey at the same time"), King loves to hold forth on anything from capitalism to existentialism. Over his desk he keeps an incongruous pair of portraits: an original of Ali by LeRoy Neiman and a print of Rembrandt's Aristotle contemplating the Bust of Homer...
BREAKOUT is the seasonal visit from Charles Bronson, this time more expansive than usual as a Texas border rat who is hired to bust Robert Duvall out of a Mexican prison. This caper-based on fact-also has the distinction of having inspired a real-life jailbreak in Michigan two weeks ago. Life is not always scrupulous about imitating art, however. The real convicts got caught...
...hide his feelings, Galbraith has often put off the administration and some of his colleagues. In 1969 he was a leader of the liberal wing of the faculty in denouncing the administration after a student strike and a police bust. Galbraith's fans, like Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief, say that "as economic theory has gotten narrower he has provided a bridge to the real world." Others demur. Says Harvard Business School Lecturer Daniel Fenn: "I think his field has not primarily been Harvard. He has used it mainly as a base of operations. My feeling is that...