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...Social Costs. The French narcotics bureau has since been increased from 47 to 350 agents. By midyear, predicts Commissioner Marcel Carrere, there will be 40 operatives in the Marseille bureau alone, a fourfold increase. Two drug cops will receive permanent liaison assignments to the U.S., and others will take special training in American cities. In an effort to save itself the high social costs-and the inestimable human ones-that are now taking their toll in the U.S., the government of President Georges Pompidou has taken one other step. It has introduced a bill increasing the maximum sentence for drug...
...racism, thus providing authentic freedom for both white and black people." The 16 scholars implicitly endorsed James Forman's reparations demand on white churches (TIME, May 16) by recalling St. Luke: 19-8, in which Zachaeus told Jesus: "If I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold." They also declared that "the message of liberation is the revelation of God as revealed in the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Freedom IS the Gospel. Jesus is the liberator...
...opening night at least, KTLA got what it was paying $100,000 a year for: a fourfold increase in the ratings. In a town addicted to electronic news (the supper-hour local report runs two hours on one station), KTLA had fallen into fifth place after a rival station wooed away its top announcer, George Putnam, an archconservative who never fails to put America first. The salary that won George was $300,000 (Walter Cronkite earns something over $200,000). Even if Reddin does not improve over his shaky shakedown, he has an escalator contract guaranteeing...
...Miranda v. Arizona (1966) said that a defendant must be given a "fourfold warning" before he is questioned: 1) that he may remain silent, 2) that anything he says may be used against him, 3) that he may have a lawyer present, and 4) that, if indigent, he may have a lawyer without charge...
Adams' mandate was carried out-Raytheon's earnings increased fourfold during Geneen's three-year stay-but Geneen was by now casting about for a larger policymaking role. At the same time, several corporations were anxious for a man who would make policy, and Geneen was sought out by an executive recruiting service for the top job at ITT. In May 1959 he walked into Adams' office, abruptly announced: "I'm resigning." The day the news came out, Raytheon was the most actively traded stock on the New York Stock Exchange, dropping 6½ points...