Word: gibsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Essentially Irrational. Astrology 14 is not exactly moving either heaven or earth within the trade. Established astrologers like Carroll Righter, who built reputations and fortunes on a 12-sign system, dismiss Schmidt's theories as "meaningless." U.S.C. Astronomy Professor Gibson Reaves points out that "astrology is essentially irrational, and to try to give it such a rational, scientific explanation would spoil it for most people, anyway." Buffs like Clark Stillman, salesman at a Greenwich Village occult bookstore, complain that Schmidt doesn't ascribe any "elements" (air, water, fire, etc.) to his new signs or enhance them "for esoteric...
Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller has dipped into his own capacious pocket to supplement the pay of a dozen state officials, although the Arkansas attorney general told him it was unconstitutional. Newark's Mayor Kenneth Gibson has persuaded local businessmen to add $2,500 a year to the city business administrator's $35,000 salary in order to attract a top outside professional to the job. Now the mayor of Honolulu, Frank Fasi, has offered $40,000 from his campaign war chest to help fend off a strike of Teamster drivers that would have halted two privately owned Oahu...
...much is a police directorship worth? In Newark, about $15,000. That figure was in Mayor Kenneth Gibson's Dow-Jones of bribes he has been offered during the first 21 months of his administration. In all, Gibson said last week, $31,000 could have been his for making certain appointments. The offers came in anonymous notes and calls and included propositions of 10% kickbacks on city construction programs...
...such graft that led to the conviction of his predecessor, Hugh Addonizio, on 64 charges of extortion and conspiracy. The offers to Gibson are being investigated for possible prosecution of the would-be donors...
...Gibson disclosed the figure at a meeting of Newark's Chamber of Commerce, adding, "I challenge you not to offer any money to anyone in the city administration for the next four years." Gibson, whose annual salary is $35,000, said he would not know what to do with the bribes: "I couldn't put it under the mattress and I couldn't put it in the bank...