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...clothes, looks less like Archie than like Spiro Agnew, and enjoys good liquor and luxuries of all kinds. He and his rarely seen wife rule over a big, expensive house in fancy Chestnut Hill (Rizzo denies persistent reports that he spent up to $410,000 to buy it and fix it up). He will not even say "hell" in the presence of a woman, but when he is with the boys he can swear with the best of them-especially at the newspapers...
...hard Red Sox baseball fans will continue to live this weekend, but they'll have to take to the tube for their fix. The Stockings begin a four game series with the Texas Rangers tonight. All of the games will be on television, with games all starting at 8:30 and the Sunday finale beginning...
This proves to be no easy matter. For one thing, Rupert is constantly attended by a delectable nurse, Miss Deaton (Pamela Lewis), to whose charms he seems immune but to whose weird logic he succumbs. No suicide till the plumber comes to fix the hot water, she tells him. But he doesn't intend to scald himself to death, he argues. Non sequitur follows non sequitur. A trio of international jewel thieves arrives, but they also do quick-change sequences as Indian priests, complete with cobra and waxwork replicas of Captain Blood, Buffalo Bill and Marie Antoinette...
...second economy also provides a veritable army of shabashniki, or moonlighters, who will replace floorboards, mend roofs, fix plumbing and do any numher of services that would take months to obtain from state-managed building repair crews. Some of these repairmen are highly skilled engineers who quadruple their salaries, tax free, by after-hours work. Simes observes that everyone who owns an auto-and there are now 15 million passenger cars on Soviet roads-is a permanent user of the parallel market. While it could take weeks to have a car repaired and months to obtain spare parts, affluent drivers...
...prices of these containers -and by extension the total prices of products that come in them-were kept higher than they should have been. Last week a federal grand jury in Chicago indicted 23 corporations and 50 present and former executives of 19 of those companies for conspiring to fix prices in the folding-carton industry...