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...guided tour of his house. A Doberman pinscher snarled behind a door ("He could take your arm off," advised Tony Pro), but the rest of the house was peaceful. There was a big swimming pool out in back, a pool table in one room, and a handcarved teak bust that the host volunteered was worth $250,000. In the living room hung an original oil portrait of Provenzano's mother, which he said he had commissioned "to honor her." Noting that the photographer was sweating as he left, Tony Pro remarked with a laugh: "Hey, you think you weren...
...Busting Budgets. The unions have won spectacular wage gains in recent years. Among the higher top-base annual salaries, which are reached after varying years of service and without promotion: $18,000 for firemen and policemen in Chicago, $16,681 for teachers in Detroit with only a bachelor's degree, and $15,731 for sanitation men in New York. Naturally, people who earn promotions get more than that. Unions have also won pensions that range from generous to excessive and threaten to bust many a budget in the future. In New York, for example, sanitation men hired since...
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...