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More than 100,000 bars, restaurants and package stores come under the supervision of the New York State Liquor Authority. It can grant licenses, or refuse to grant them, or take them away; a liquor-store owner cannot even move to a new location without permission from the authority. Booze is big business in New York: a Manhattan package store can easily gross $1,000,000 a year. With that kind of money at stake, the Liquor Authority, with its 358 lowly employees, is a likely school for scandal. And as of last week, scandal was busting out all over...
...inequities elsewhere in the tax code. The double exemption for blind taxpayers is a humane provision, but it creates a special privilege not shared by taxpayers who suffer other kinds of disabilities. The deductibility of mortgage interest fosters socially desirable home ownership, but it gives the home owner a special advantage over the renter, whose rent includes a share of the land lord's interest costs...
After some arguing about who their candidate was going to be, the Democrats picked portly William Grader, 45, owner of a fish-processing plant and sometime political handyman for Congressman Miller. Grader was little known among the voters, and Republicans did as little as possible to call him to their attention. Democrats tried to concoct an issue by calling Clausen "Dodging Don," offering a $100 prize to anyone who could get him on the same platform with Grader...
...least some of its own crude oil, now owns fields in the U.S., Canada and Angola and is prospecting in six other nations, including its native Belgium (where it numbers among its 85% Belgian stockholders the ubiquitous Société Générale de Belgique, chief owner of the Congo's Union Minière). It has also moved into petrochemicals, along with Union Carbide has opened a massive polyethylene plant at Antwerp to supply the Common Market...
Maury Mandel, co-owner of Jerry Rothschild's barbershop in Beverly Hills, says his hairpiece trade has gone up at least 200% in just the past year. "It used to be men of 50 or 60 who would come in," says Mandel. "Now it is men of 30 or 35. It's part ego and part it's just annoying to be bald." Though show biz types like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra are still leaders in the wiggy set, "ordinary people are going in for the same routine," says Mandel. In San Antonio, whose wig merchants...