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After six years of childless marriage, John and Cynthia Burke of Newark decided to adopt a baby boy through a state agency. Since the Burkes were young, scandal-free and solvent, they had no trouble with the New Jersey Bureau of Children's Services?until investigators came to the line on the application that asked for the couple's religious affiliation...
Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller has dipped into his own capacious pocket to supplement the pay of a dozen state officials, although the Arkansas attorney general told him it was unconstitutional. Newark's Mayor Kenneth Gibson has persuaded local businessmen to add $2,500 a year to the city business administrator's $35,000 salary in order to attract a top outside professional to the job. Now the mayor of Honolulu, Frank Fasi, has offered $40,000 from his campaign war chest to help fend off a strike of Teamster drivers that would have halted two privately owned Oahu...
...much is a police directorship worth? In Newark, about $15,000. That figure was in Mayor Kenneth Gibson's Dow-Jones of bribes he has been offered during the first 21 months of his administration. In all, Gibson said last week, $31,000 could have been his for making certain appointments. The offers came in anonymous notes and calls and included propositions of 10% kickbacks on city construction programs...
Gibson disclosed the figure at a meeting of Newark's Chamber of Commerce, adding, "I challenge you not to offer any money to anyone in the city administration for the next four years." Gibson, whose annual salary is $35,000, said he would not know what to do with the bribes: "I couldn't put it under the mattress and I couldn't put it in the bank...
...whole work until Industrial fabricates it, the factory finds itself a kind of later-day artist's studio, where the artist treats a work's completion like an unveiling. Last week Tony Smith was busy chauffeuring selected friends across the Hudson and through the back streets of Newark to the cement-block building where his new creation had taken final form-a 16-ft., six-ton steel structure called The Snake...