Word: local
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After calling some 800 witnesses and studying 29 local CETA efforts, the Dade County grand jury cited testimony indicating that the South Florida program "felt itself politically obligated to respond favorably to numerous requests from officials of county government." Adds Assistant State Attorney Thomas Petersen: "There was all this money for all these programs, but no one had time to plan or evaluate them. The wrong people ended up benefiting...
...program and another 14 are being investigated for fraud. The Department of Labor recently ordered a team of investigators to begin auditing the entire South Florida program. But while its problems are serious, the program is surely not the only one of CETA'S 2,800 local projects afflicted by mismanagement. Says a Labor Department official with a sigh: "It would take an army, everybody in the department, to check on each of them...
Last week, after spending the day on the estate, he got a lift to the local train station with his secretary in her 1965 Mustang. As they rounded a curve, they collided head-on with a car driven by a 16-year-old boy. Rockefeller, 72, and the boy were killed instantly; the secretary and a woman in a third car were injured. The accident occurred only a mile from the 3,200-acre family estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., that was the childhood home of John and his brothers...
...names are skirting Boston this weekend, but some of the finer local groups should make up for the loss-and at a much lower cost...
...demand for anchors spurted as local stations across the U.S. expanded their news coverage; Los Angeles' KNXT last month introduced a 2½-hour newscast, and a number of stations (Los Angeles' KNBC, Chicago's WBBM and New York's WNBC among them) mount three shows a night. Local news operations, once money-losing public service efforts, have become universally profitable; at many stations news is the most important source of income. Now anchors and their agents routinely play one station against another at contract-renewal time, and the stations pay up willingly...