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...hold suspects in serious crimes. Despite these responsibilities, only one magistrate is a lawyer, only nine are high school graduates, four never went beyond grade school, and one dropped out in sixth grade. Almost uniquely among modern U.S. cities, Philadelphia retains the magistrate's job as a payoff for ward politicians-and though the post pays only $12,500 a year, such are the hidden benefits that reformers have failed to effect any basic change in 274 years...
Moron Smart. The new season had been billed as the big Bond payoff, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. seemed to have found the right spoofing approach; even with reruns, U.N.C.L.E. managed during the summer to stay up in the top ten. But oh what sins producers commit when they begin to counterfeit. ABC's Jane Bond, Honey West (Anne Francis) has all the getaway gadgets -including tear-gas earrings and a garter that converts to a gas mask-but she has not a chance of escaping the banalities of her script. CBS's The Wild, Wild West...
...throughout its two-year administration. In December 1963 Pearson's Postmaster General resigned amid a parliamentary uproar over the appointment of defeated Liberal candidates as "consultants." The next to go was a Minister Without Portfolio who resigned after two Montreal dailies reported that he took a $10,000 payoff to help some Quebec race-track promoters pick up a franchise. A Quebec royal commission last September accused a Liberal member of the Commons' Banking and Commerce Committee of making an "unlawful and unconscionable profit" of $62,605 on a school land purchase in Montreal. He was acquitted...
...profits, he branched into baking, saw the potential of marketing sweet rolls in easy-to-heat foil pans, this year will sell $6,000,000 worth of "Aunt Fanny's" sweet rolls to supermarkets, airlines and other large buyers. For Cincinnati's Joseph McVicker, 34, the payoff idea was to turn doughlike wallpaper cleaner into a nonsticky modeling compound for children. Although the toymakers told him it would never sell, he has built a $4,000,000-a-year business from his "Play-Doh." Says McVicker: "I guess I wasn't bright enough...
...helped the Internal Revenue Service recover $18.1 million last year, 822 "tax tattlers" earned rewards totaling $565,254. Although payments to tipsters hit an average of $687, reported Commerce Clearing House last week, hardly anyone knows the range of their rewards-except the IRS, of course, which taxes the payoffs. The tax code sets the "normal" payoff as 10% of whatever money informers bring in, but district tax collectors can pay whatever a tip is worth. Moreover, "no unauthorized person shall be advised of the identity of the informant"-a provision which protected the 3,672 informers whose information proved...