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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal investigators painstakingly pieced together the facts of an intricate $20 mil lion Medicaid scheme and indicted 16 people in Chicago two weeks ago. By last week six of them had pleaded guilty, and one indicted doctor had committed suicide. The case is the latest example of the fastest-growing form of white-collar crime: ripping off Uncle Sam's multibillion-dollar social-welfare programs. But with the Chicago indictments, Uncle also served notice that he is finding new ways to strike back...
...rate of economic expansion in the South averaged 4.4% annually, v. 3.4% for the U.S. as a whole. The main thrust at first came from an increase in manufacturing. Since 1970, however, service industries, such as banking, real estate and retail trade, have been the fastest growing. They now provide the region with 54% of its gross product, up from...
...York-born Jew who headed west 28 years ago and worked successively as rodeo bulldogger, airplane wing-walker, horse-race broadcaster, rancher and-since 1967-U.S. Congressman. He frequently sports lizardskin cowboy boots, silver belt buckles and pearl-buttoned shirts. Endowed with the brashest and fastest lip in Arizona politics, he once angered fellow Congressmen by observing that many of them were usually too drunk to be trusted pushing a wheelbarrow. More recently, he made headlines by shooting two burros that he claimed attacked him on a neighbor's ranch near Prescott...
...escapes of the cold war. In the view of U.S. Air Force and intelligence experts, it was also one of the most significant; Belenko was flying the MIG-25, which has never been examined by Western specialists. Called "Foxbat" in the NATO code, it is the world's fastest weapons-carrying warplane, having attained a record speed* of 1,852.6 m.p.h. and a test altitude of 118,000 ft.-outrunning and outclimbing even the newest U.S. fighter planes. Thus a study of the MIG-25's complex radar, engines and missile system could provide U.S. experts with...
...soak-the-rich laws that trying to make it big in business is about as difficult as trying to hit a home run inside a telephone booth. Yet it can be done. The most dramatic proof is Anders Wall, 45, president of Stockholm-based Beijerinvest and the fastest-rising star in the Swedish corporate world. During the past decade, Wall, through a shrewdly calculated program of acquisitions, has built his company from a small trading firm into a conglomerate embracing 50 trading and manufacturing concerns that turn out goods as diverse as beer, rolling-mill equipment and industrial pumps. Under...