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...current controversy in New York centers on the efficiency of the municipal sanitation force as opposed to private cartmen. DeLury counters that private cartmen are a "single operation," collecting high-mass garbage from restaurants, industries, and the like. His men, he says, not only have the more time-consuming job of collecting lighter-mass rubbish--which has to be compacted over and over again to equal the mass of one load of garbage--but they are also responsible for street cleaning, snow removal, and disposal operations. "I'm a great guy for studies, though," he says, willing to take...
...Flanders village of Quiquendone is a study in slow motion. The burgomaster is "phlegm personified." Conversations are punctuated by extended periods of silence. It is a town, says one man, "where there has not been the shadow of a discussion for a century, where the cartmen do not swear, where the coachmen do not insult each other, where horses do not run away, where the dogs do not bite, where the cats do not scratch." For lovers to marry before they have courted languorously for ten years is a scandal...
...lessons in scavenging poured into the table microphones of the Senate Caucus Room in Washington as, one by one, independent garbage-collecting contractors told how Outsider Squillante used contacts in a Teamster union local to grab control of the Greater New York Carting Association. Bringing the cartmen into line, even to the point where owner-drivers had to join the union, Squillante's hold became such that he could, at a whim, leave thousands of businessmen and householders with garbage piling up day by day on the sidewalks...
...managed to avoid deep trouble, although his address book produced the names of such crooks as Joey Surprise, Nanny the Geep and Joe Stutz. He got caught only once, on an income-tax rap. He solved that, the committee charged, by having his boys extract $57,855 from two cartmen's groups, then paying up his taxes...
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