Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...working altitude of 25,000 ft. gives its snooping gear a much wider reach than that of a surface ship like Pueblo. Because many of the signals to be monitored travel in straight lines rather than bending with the earth's curvature, an airborne collector sees a much more distant horizon and can keep signals within range far longer. One EC-121 radar can sweep a 40,000-sq.-mi. area. The plane carries six tons of electronic gear and a crew of 31, large enough to allow technicians and translators to spell each other frequently at tasks that...
...Accounting practices, on which laymen rely as a warrant of truth, have grown increasingly elastic. Tax laws give companies great latitude in deciding how to treat both assets and costs that affect profits. Frequently, companies quite legally report results one way to the public and another to the tax collector. The conglomerates in particular are worried. Says Chairman Laurence Tisch Jr. of Loew's Theaters: "Accounting tricks are taking over. There's no rule on how to keep the books. You can make up your own mind...
Esposito, 27, made his big-league debut in 1964 with Chicago. In three successive seasons he racked up 20-plus goals but inevitably played in the shadow of Bobby Hull. "In Chicago," he recalls, "they called me a garbage collector. They said I picked up Bobby's garbage for points." More shade was cast by General Manager Tommy Ivan, who took a dim view of Esposito's escapades and traded him to Boston after the 1966-67 season. His antics are still puerile (he recently hid the luggage of Boston General Manager Milt Schmidt in a hotel lobby...
...during World War II, the opportunity to grow wealthy through hard work has been largely denied to salaried people. Instead, the road to riches twists through the thickets of tax avoidance. As a result, an inordinate number of man hours are spent in figuring out ways to outwit the collector. Because of its sheer intricacy, the tax code is one law that many Americans cannot even obey unaided. Providing such aid has created a flourishing literature of tax-tipstering and a thriving industry for lawyers and accountants, who pocket substantial fees...
...cardboard democracy" allowed Communists and Christian Democrats to succeed one another monotonously in the mayor's office. But the real power still rested with the bishop in his diocesan quarters-marble floors, red plush draperies, gold-framed loveseats-and with those few petty officials, from policeman to tax collector, anciently privileged to corruption...