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...month prison term in 1970 for slugging an FBI agent, Marcello has successfully dodged federal prosecution and deportation for decades. Today the Marcello domain includes hotels and motels, oil holdings, a produce company, and a 6,000-acre tract of land in suburban New Orleans worth an esti mated $60 million...
...mail, freezing out potentially more efficient private competitors; gradually free airlines to experiment with lower fares for special classes of passengers; deregulate natural gas prices; move to eliminate antiquated Interstate Commerce Commission regulations that have fostered inflexible cartel-style rates and inflated truck and rail shipping charges by an esti mated...
Scrap Plans. Nixon said that he will seek to hold federal spending for this fiscal year to about $300 billion, or about $5 billion less than present esti mates. But beyond promising to eliminate 40,000 of the Government's 2.8 million jobs he gave no hint of where the cuts would be made. Nixon announced that he has ordered a "sweeping review" of all federal regulatory agencies in order to scrap old rules that hamper production. He said that the nation must "reevaluate" environmental and safety laws, which many businessmen have criticized as being too costly. In private...
Drug usage and the violence it in spires are mounting across the nation, but nowhere is the problem more grave than in New York City, with its esti mated 360,000 addicts. The volatility of the drug-crime syndrome also makes good political fodder...
...toolsetters from a rival union recently stalked out of Britain's Girling company, a large manufacturer of brakes. That started a disastrous chain reaction. For lack of brakes, automobile companies had to close several plants and lay off thousands of workers. Ford Motor Co., Ltd., alone lost an esti mated $50 million in sales during the four weeks that the walkout lasted...