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Dunmeyer's mother, he related, was a prostitute, but in her own eyes "she was just a woman that had to learn to live by her wits." As a child, said Dunmeyer, he saw slumlords, dope peddlers and graft-taking cops enrich themselves by "flimflamming somebody"-which encouraged him to do likewise. "If you can't get downtown to take the big stack," he said, "you took the little stack uptown from the little guy who lived right around you." Added Dunmeyer: "You are in jail in the street or behind bars...
Though U.S. surgeons are skeptical and some scoff at the procedure, Dr. Kalnberz expects that more sensation will eventually develop in his patients' fingers. He even hopes to learn how to graft a fingernail in place...
...will give the Army its first helicopter designed as an aerial artillery platform. Hughes, aiming at a future 110-passenger intercity transport, built its experimental XV-9A hot-cycle model, which is powered by hot gases shooting out of rotor-tip vents. Beyond that come bizarre crossbreeds intended to graft the convenience of helicopters to the greater speed and durability of conventional planes. Ling-Temco-Vought's tilt-wing XC-142A can fly straight up, backward at 35 m.p.h. or forward at 400 m.p.h. Lockheed, a relative newcomer to the field, is building an odd-looking hybrid called...
...made corruption a way of life. An amenable Gary mayor can figure on an extracurricular income during his four-year term of $3,000,000 to $6,000,000-all for doing nothing. The only real mistake that a local official can make is to fail to report his graft on his income-tax return...
...also caught on a tax-evasion charge in 1962 for failure to report $226,686 in kickbacks from contractors doing business with the city. Both could have learned from Chacharis' more astute predecessor. Mayor Peter Mandich, a U.S. attorney told a federal court, "received large amounts of graft payments, but the evidence does not show that he failed to report the payments as income on tax returns." Mandich went free...