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...ghetto areas around the country, arson is often a means of feeding drug habits. Unable to afford the tools to remove valuable brass plumbing, sinks, bathtubs and refrigerators in abandoned buildings, junkies pour inflammable liquid around the rooms, set a blaze and wait for firemen to chop up the floors, exposing the loot. Then the "mango hunters," as New York cops call them for their practice of reaping a harvest of stolen goods, move in, drag ou the fire-resistant fixtures and sell them -a bathtub is worth $25 on the open market, a wash basin $15. Some areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Arson for Hate and Profit | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...addition, a combined chorale of Cambridge City Councilors, local businessmen (including Tommy), firemen, and professors emeritus will perform the "extended play" version of the smash-movie-theme song/rock-ballad "You Light Up My Life" on the steps of Widener Library on the Harvard University campus on any given Sunday. (Ha.) (A: The Pythagorean theorem; upper right molars (part A), prophylaxis (part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boring | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...roof, but property taxes. Such taxes have risen an average of 76% since 1970, and 136% since 1967. The spiral has been caused in part by expansion of local public services, but more by the enormous inflation-sparked increases in the wages and benefits of teachers, policemen and firemen, and even the maintenance of local roads. Some examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Wild, Wild Property Taxes | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...Craig, the world shall spit on you and your mother ... Sure, I am the killer, but Craig, the killings are at your command." On the same day that he received two of the letters (Aug. 6), Glassman was startled to find a fire burning outside his apartment door. When firemen put it out, they found .22-cal. shells in the ashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sam Told Me To Do It... Sam Is the Devil | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...jobs that do not officially exist. Another 3 million are believed to moonlight regularly at unreported second and even third jobs. Entire families work at home assembling ball-point pens, making shoes, stamping out auto parts or upholstering furniture. Hospital nurses work after hours in clinics; cops and firemen do lucrative plumbing or electrical work in their spare time. Many wages are substandard: as low as $60 a month. But there are no tax or social security deductions. Workers find the jobs rewarding. With everyone pitching in, family income can be substantial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Italy's Secret Economy | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

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