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...subjects interviewed by the Manhattan-based Training for Living Institute, * 87 had been on heroin. Three-fourths were male, half were black, one-fourth white, one-fourth Puerto Rican. Most had incomes in the $5,000 to $10,000 range. Among the 91 who had taken drugs during working hours, 48 had also sold them to other employees, 37 had stolen goods to sell on the outside, and 28 had stolen cash or checks. One man had forged and cashed an entire payroll. Although the average age of the subjects was only 23, they had already been on drugs...
...both Republicans and Democrats, thought less of McGovern because of the Eagleton debacle. The reasons, however, were mixed. Of the panelists expressing an opinion on the matter, four out of ten thought McGovern should have investigated Eagleton more carefully in the first place; one-third were critical of McGovern's decision to drop him; one-fourth thought he displayed indecisiveness in handling the matter. Only one out of ten Democratic voters thought McGovern had emerged from the affair with a stronger candidacy than before...
...that his antisymmetric "bird" would fly well at supersonic speeds (as high as Mach 1.5 or approximately 1,000 m.p.h.), and would do so at considerably lower cost than other SSTs. On takeoffs, with its wing at right angles to the fuselage, he says, the plane would require only one-fourth the power of the Russian TU-144 or the Concorde, both of which have fixed delta wings. Thus it could operate with conventional, relatively quiet turbofan jets, sharply reducing noise on landings and takeoffs. It would also prevent pollution of the stratosphere by burning less fuel and by flying...
More Rollbacks. The small companies that were liberated account for about one-fourth of U.S. industry's sales and jobs. Some 900 Internal Revenue Service agents will be freed from the job of poring over the books of these firms and shifted to the more productive task of investigating complaints against larger corporations. In all, nearly 2,000 IRS men will be policing the big companies. As Herbert Stein, head of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, put it: "We can watch many more billions of Gross National Product by watching General Motors than by watching...
Ryan will draw his additional salary by taking one-fourth of the paycheck of Andrew W. Nelson, the full-time adult general manager of HSA. The University, through the committee on Financial Aid, pays half of Nelson's salary. Thus the Financial Aid committee will be paying half of Ryan's supplemental income...