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...later, the municipality asked everyone in town to paint his house front and set out flowers; chests were placed in Kerkrade's 148 cafes for contributions (hearty-drinking Kerkraders dropped in $100,000-almost enough to pay all costs of the concours}. By 1958, Scholtes had a dossier of 50,000 bands...
...into oil, glass and, according to government charges, bribery. He lavished presents on government officials, the government case continues, and though foreigners are forbidden to make contributions to political campaigns, freely contributed money to the candidates of his choice. Stonehill also kept telephone wiretapping equipment handy, maintained a complete dossier on all his government contacts. Winking at Stonehill's illegalities became almost a governmental tic; investigators charge that he illegally imported cigarette paper into the country, declaring the shipments as "school supplies," and manufactured cigarettes illegally. Another charge: that he smuggled $34 million out of the Philippines when dollar...
...pried open the trunk of an abandoned 1947 Plymouth sedan. Inside they found a cache of several guns and a small mountain of large-denomination bills. The trail led straight to Newsboy: with the money were bonds made out to him and his deceased brother, as well as a dossier on one of Newsboy's arrests, which had been lifted from the county prosecutor's office some time ago. Naturally, Newsboy declined to admit that the money was his. So did a redheaded girlfriend who once owned the car in which the money was found...
Though the patron had no inkling of their presence, eleven different experts had eleven different meals at Lasserre before reaching their final verdict, which was added to a dossier on the restaurant that dates back to its opening in 1950. The Michelin inspectors are a kind of Palate Guard chosen for their iron digestions, sensitive palates and impeccable integrity. In keeping with the Guide's slogan. Pas de piston, pas de pot de vin (roughly, no pull, no payoffs), they arrive alone and unannounced, sample food and wine, reveal their identities only when they have finished eating...
...large and unhappy part of Sanjuan's job to handle complaints about segregation from dark-skinned diplomats -and all too many of the cases in his thickening dossier bear a Route 40 address. A main auto artery between Washington and New York, Route 40 from the Delaware River south to Baltimore is a gaudy neon wilderness of eateries, sleeperies, roadside marts and drive-ins. An average 87,500 motorists travel that 48-mile stretch daily and, inevitably, many of them are riffraff of a sort no innkeeper would welcome. But in fact, the restaurant and motel signs that proclaim...