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Duclcs & Sharks. Indicted with Marcus on charges that could lead to five years in prison and fines of $10,000 each were five other men. Foremost among them: Antonio Corallo, 54, identified by the FBI as a leader of the Mafia "family" once headed by the late
...thirst of nearly a million New Yorkers. Last year Republican Mayor John Lindsay's reform administration discovered that the reservoir's spalled concrete bottom had never been cleaned, and decided to scour it out. "Because of the magnitude of the job," wrote Water Commissioner James L. Marcus in last month's issue of the American City (circ. 35,664), an urban management magazine, "we awarded it to an experienced and well-equipped contractor...
...muck-bottomed reservoir could serve as a metaphor for urban malaise. Last week, in the wake of Marcus' cleanup, Jerome Park Reservoir was as spotless as the bottom of a washed soup bowl, but the Lindsay Administration was murky with implications of corruption. In the first major scandal to besmirch Lindsay's two-year-old (out of four) administration, Marcus was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of accepting a $16,000 kickback on the $835,669.39 reservoir cleaning contract...
...Review now runs fewer, if longer, book reviews, and devotes much of its space to New Left political commentary. Back in 1963, for example, a book review by Marcus Raskin persuasively rebutted those members of the military establishment who urged a continuing accumulation of nuclear weapons. Raskin's case was all the more convincing because it was coolly and rationally made. Rationality was not in evidence in the latest issue of the Review when Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor at M.I.T., offered his comment on the military establishment. Rehashing the recent Washington Peace March, he called the Pentagon the "most...
Last year NCAA President Marcus Plante declared a moratorium on the ruling and invited the Ivy League to participate in winter and spring competition while the 1.6 rule was under view. The moratorium ended this fall...