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...City of London authorized the construction of 20 million sq. ft. in new office space, nearly one-third of the existing total. Just outside the City, one of the largest new financial projects is planned for Canary Wharf, a $4 billion development on the once desolate patch of Thames dockland known as the Isle of Dogs...
They played their roles perfectly: dockland toughs, racketeers, underworld fixers. So completely did they work their way into the confidence of the Mafia-backed labor groups in the harbors that they ended up as bagmen, carrying payoff money back to the mob. Last week there was no mention of the actors when 400 subpoenas were served for two federal grand jury investigations of an extortion ring that has preyed on at least a dozen shipping companies in New York City and other Atlantic and Gulf ports. TIME has learned that the trusted men who worked so closely with the Mafia...
Scandalized, the London Daily Mirror was spluttering: "Tight satin corselettes, bunny scuts and furry ears, bulging breasts and thighs-the ultimate in American vulgarity." Summing up, the Mirror snipped: "Princesses and bunnies don't mix." Well, they really didn't have to mix much at the Dockland Settlements Society's charity ball in London's Savoy Hotel. The ball's organizers thought it would be cute to have some Playboy Club bunnies hopping around selling programs, and that's what the gals were doing when Britain's Princess Margaret, 36, swept in with...
...sunset-pink gown was smashing all right, but it was Princess Margaret's new hairdo that set the crowd at London's glittering Dockland Settlements Ball atwitter. Obviously inspired by some Grecian yearn, it was swept abruptly back from her forehead and fixed with jewel-studded pins above and behind her ears. The effect was a kind of outsized ponytail with the ends curled back along Meg's shapely neck. "It can't be all her," whispered one Lady, smelling a royal rat. "Of course it's not," said another. Only her hairdresser knew...
...thrust of debate, her points are as emphatic as the slap of a wet cod across a face. Newspapers poke sly fun at her, other M.P.s snicker at her, county squires snort: "She's a disgrace to public life." But among her constituents in Liverpool's grimy dockland, Mrs. Bessie Braddock, M.P., is a beloved and admired champion...