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Troubled Tightwad. For all his money, though, Genovese was a tightwad. Fearful that members of his dope ring might cheat him, he mixed into narcotics dealings that he might well have handled by remote control. In 1957 a Genovese dope peddler arrested in Manhattan got sore because the boss failed to come to his rescue with a bail bond and a lawyer. The prisoner got even by spilling the gang's secrets; two years later Genovese and fourteen other hoods were convicted of violating federal narcotics laws. The boss was sentenced to 15 years in prison...
Developed by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and Space Technology Laboratories, the space sentries are parts of a many-sided program to detect clandestine nuclear tests. One tempting possibility for a nation that has signed a test ban but intends to cheat is to shoot a test device deep into space and observe the results by means of instruments carried on a nearby spacecraft. Since a nuclear explosion in a vacuum gives little visible light, it might well go unnoticed by observers on earth...
Wallace McDonald, director of Financial Aid at Harvard, said that Harvard would not "cheat" by increasing its application just because the limit has been raised. Peter Kay Gunness, assistant director of Financial Aid, added that he was sure that the University would get a large amount than the $250,000 it is presently receiving from the NDEA...
Even J.C.S. Chairman Maxwell Taylor, one of the Pentagon's foremost treaty advocates, predicted that the Russians would cheat by clandestine tests. But he denied that the "gains that might come from this kind of testing would have any great bearing upon our relative position...
...hidden in the false bottoms of automobiles, lire are being smuggled out of Italy at the rate of more than $200 million a month. In any other nation, such a capital flight might lead to alarm or panic. In Italy it is recognized as only another ingenious ploy to cheat the tax collector. No one really worries, because the fleeing lira usually returns to Italy wearing a disguise...