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...million in loans from the fund in 1974. The trustee advised Glick to see Frank Balistrieri, the Mafia's top man in Milwaukee. The indictment claims that Balistrieri and Joe Aiuppa, the Chicago boss, wielded their influence with other unnamed directors of the Teamsters fund to get the mon ey. Glick used the loans to buy four casinos, including the Star dust and the Fremont...
...money to spare?" said Gary Hart sheepishly as he cupped his hands. "It seems that I'm a little short this week, again. But I swear that I've got a lot of dough coming my way. There are some friends of mine who owe me big money. C'mon...
When South African Hotelier Solo mon Kerzner speaks, he comes across more like a New Jersey dockhand than a powerful executive. He talks machine gun-style, from the corner of his mouth, with an accent sounding a bit like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. Yet the former college boxer's pugnacious manner suits his controversial role in business. Kerzner, 48, is southern Africa's casino king. In a country so morally conservative that movie theaters are closed on Sundays and Playboy magazine is banned as the work of the devil, Kerzner has succeeded in assembling...
...free world. Its trillion-dollar-a-year industrial machine accounts for 10% of the world's output. By 1990, the Japanese may achieve a per capita gross national product that surpasses that of the U.S. As a 19th century French tourist said of another island people, the English: "Mon Dieu, comme ils travaillent...
TRAVELOGUES are as old as literature itself, but Blue Highways is more than anything an American work. A feat like Least Heat Moon's would be almost inconceivable anywhere else--to travel thousands and thousands of miles, from Nameless, Tenn., to Dime Box, Tex., to Bagley., Mon., to Cape Porpoise. Maine, and never pass outside the U.S. border, except for a small stretch of southern Canada. The faces of small-town America are as varied as their climates and geographies, from the Creoles of Louisiana to the Navajos of Nevada to the Yankees of Vermont. Yet if Blue Highways shows...