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...result of the hearings, the New York legislature will consider a bill requiring judges to sentence all convicted pimps, "Johns" and their prostitutes to the minimum jail sentences allowed under existing state laws. Chicago police are cracking down on pimps, charging them with the felony crimes of "soliciting for a juvenile prostitute" and "juvenile pimping." By expanding the Mann Act to apply to boys as well as girls, Congress last month made it easier to combat the transporting of young males across state lines for immoral purposes-a practice in which organized crime is increasingly involved...
Dreyfuss aside, The Goodbye Girl is not without its unpretentious merits, the most notable of which is Neil Simon's script. Though the film relies heavily on the mechanical plot devices of '40s boy-meets-girl movies, Simon keeps gratuitous punch lines to a minimum and shows an open-hearted concern for his fetching characters. Unfortunately, The Goodbye Girl's direction has been entrusted to Herbert Ross (The Turning Point), a film maker who has a bizarre knack for making almost any screenplay look as if it were written for radio. This time around he photographs...
...products are provided by the same domestic processors that supply the chain with its private labels and its well-known national brands. The food items meet all the minimum Government requirements for quality, and the packages and cans are made and labeled according to specifications laid down by Jewel. The difference is that unlike the major brands, which usually demand top-grade foodstuffs, the generic products are the cheaper, "standard" quality goods. Thus the green peas are more pebble-sized than petit, the rice is not always whole grain, grapefruit sections are broken and peanut butter contains specks of peanut...
Gulf maintains that it joined under an implied threat of being run out of Canada, where it has a big uranium-mining operation. But some Gulf letters and memorandums unearthed by investigators seem to indicate that the company was, at minimum, anxious not to be left out. One Gulf lawyer wrote a memo in June 1972 outlining the potential advantages of membership, and suggesting that if the cartel's activities ever came to light Gulf could blame everything on the Canadian government. Another Gulf officer took it on himself to pull together several scattered sets of cartel rules into...
...said he had no idea of the cost of the proposed renovations, but that "the cost should be of minimum importance if the changes will help in a permanent way to make Mather safe...