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...private jet on Mob business in California, where he has helped Fratianno and Rizzitello guide new Mob investments in narcotics trafficking, bookmaking, loan-sharking and extortion from legitimate businessmen as well as from illegal Mexican immigrants who work in garment-manufacturing firms owned by the mobsters. The Eastern and Midwestern hoodlums have run into stiff competition from entrenched indigenous gangs in at least one field?narcotics. This is still largely in the hands of the so-called Mexican Mafia, the Nuestra Familia, the Black Guerrilla Army and other independents...
...Tail Gunner" McCarthy nicknamed Harvard the "Kremlin on the Charles," but once all the midwestern farmboys arrive in Cambridge, they soon find out Harvard will train them for the Chase Manhattan Bank and not a revolutionary cadre. It is only natural that Harvard's faculty mirrors this bias. The radical graduate students and assistant professors soon leave for greener, tenured pastures--just take a look at the Cambridge refugees at the U Mass Economics Department...
Cash Crisis. Most gas retailers operate on a close-to-the-knuckle cash flow; they must pay their suppliers on demand, often on a day-to-day basis. Most Midwestern utilities are able to maintain this balance of payments because consumption is way up and the majority of customers are still paying. But in New England, where homeowners typically heat with oil, the cash crisis is becoming lethal. Wholesalers, especially the major oil companies, have screwed down credit limits so tight that dealers in Boston are being given as little as five days to pay for shipments. At the same...
...week was a bravura diplomatic debut for a Midwestern ex-Senator of primarily domestic bent who in the past year had barnstormed the American heartland aboard a chartered commercial jet nicknamed Minnesota Fritz. Mondale successfully managed the transition to Air Force Two and international relations, thanks in part to intensive homework (during Inauguration week, he put himself through a 30-hour crash course). He was also helped by his self-deprecating good humor. "Where's the bed?" he exclaimed with a look of mock desperation on his face as he padded down the aisle in tennis shoes. "Jerry Ford...
...monitoring stations showed a lowering of pipeline pressure, indicating big surges in demand. "The gas was being pulled out faster than we could put it in," said Henry King, an executive of the sprawling Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., a network of seven gas distributors in several mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. "In some plants we were reaching the peril point...