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...chain letter called "The Circle of Gold" which offers a $100,000 payoff based on the "trust, integrity and faith" of those who purchase it, has spread widely throughout Cambridge and is now circulating among Harvard students...
...folks at Universal, the toga fad simply means more money in the bank. Hit with many requests for assistance from toga-party organizers, studio officials are supplying free records, T shirts and posters to further the craze. The payoff: long lines of ticket buyers-many repeat customers and some bedecked with togas-at moviehouses...
...John R. Kauffmann and Patent Attorney John H. Sutherland-had offered him $50,000 in 1967 to arrange for King's assassination. Byers said that he turned down the offer. Subsequently, the New York Times obtained another FBI document, quoting Byers as saying that Kauffmann later made the payoff to the actual assassin, James Earl Ray, who is now serving a 99-year term for the murder...
...problem. The U.S. could raise its food output by 30% or 40% within the next decade, Wyman estimates-if it had a market that would pay. The hang-up is that "getting the food from here to places like India is all out of proportion to the payoff. But the U.S. Government could offer some incentives so that business would find it profitable...
...years. One reason: investors would pull money out of bank savings, municipal bonds and mattresses to pursue capital gains in the stock market. As prices rose, Evans continues, companies would be able to finance a huge expansion of plant and equipment spending by selling new stock. The payoff: a speedup in economic growth that would create 440,000 new jobs by 1985. The Steiger amendment itself, Evans calculates, would not cost the Treasury a cent; though the capital-gains levy would be lower, there would be more profits to tax. And the quickening of economic growth would raise the Government...