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...game. They are drawing a bead on the affairs of William J. Crum, the unchallenged "Money King of Viet Nam." As told by congressional investigators and Government witnesses, Crum sat atop a sprawling $40 million consortium of corruption that reached all the way to MACV headquarters. His enterprises were manifold and very often illegal. He smuggled and traded in the black market. When necessary (which was often), the subcommittee was told, he bribed or pressured high-ranking civilian and military personnel. At one point, he held a virtual monopoly on the sales of all slot and pinball machines, jukeboxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Money King of Viet Nam | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...system worked well for them and, in fact, is still working pretty much the same way today, transplanted to the Maine coast. Though they never had children, their achievement is a useful model for anyone with the Nearings' admirable ability and energy who is eager to escape the manifold idiocies of urban existence. As Paul Goodman points out in his introduction, however, it does not really bear much relation to the freewheeling life-style being hashed out now in the communes and children's colonies. These new seekers are hungry not for parsley root and multiplier onions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up on the Farm | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...that coach equates with king. The free safety is now a freethinker. The inarticulate tackle of old now has his own TV talk show. The rangy country boy with the deadly hook shot has a lawyer, a business manager and a pressagent to handle his manifold interests. Nothing symbolizes the swinging new athlete better than his dress-both on the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Athlete As Peacock | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...Organizers of the manifold demonstrations set for today against further U.S. participation in the Viet Nam War lump them under the title Viet Nam Moratorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Right or Wrong: A Maury Sampler | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...problems involved in organizing Holyoke Center workers are manifold. Mostly older women who live outside the Harvard and Cambridge communities, the Holyoke employees staff a labyrinth of independent offices and departments...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Striking University Employees to Vote Whether to Continue on Present Course | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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