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...organized crime are able to offer large bribes," said Murphy, pointing particularly at those involved in gambling operations. He said that greater care was now being taken in the training and evaluation of personnel, and that he had made a personal appeal to businessmen at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to stop offering gratuities to policemen...
...that chair when we introduce him a little later. Jerry Lewis, if he can sit still long enough, will sit in that chair too." Meany also had an explanation for the lack of music. "We don't have an orchestra. We have what you might call some chamber music. I don't think you can play Ruffles and Flourishes on a violin." He conceded that some of the delegates had laughed during the President's speech. "But I still think we have a constitutional right to laugh...
Leonid Brezhnev may have failed in his efforts to gain election to higher office, but in East Berlin, a far less likely candidate succeeded grandly. By a unanimous 500-to-0 vote, the East German Volkskammer (People's Chamber) last week re-elected old Walter Ulbricht, 78, to a fourth four-year term as Chairman of the East German Council of State...
...convinced that the election was a fraud, tried to say so in the Senate, where she holds a seat. Permission to speak was denied, but she got up on her desk and began to orate anyway. Finally, four burly men picked her up and carried her out of the chamber feet first-with Maria Eugenia laughing heartily...
...ladies and gentlemen of the average symphony or opera board are, roughly speaking, the chamber of commerce. I think it is always bad to have artistic direction in the hands of the business community. Not that I mind a bit of funny business now and then. If people want to get some orchestras or opera companies started so their wives will have a place to go, and they can sleep with prima donnas, that's all right, because once the artists are up there in front of the public, corruption disappears." BEING 75: "One of the nice things...