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...personal fortune of $1 million despite her small salary and modest family circumstances. She was awarded only $50 a month in child support and $1 a month in alimony when she divorced her husband in 1939. Her work at the St. Louis Archdiocese, though secure, paid little, and her pension is less than $1,500 a year. Yet Wilson allegedly indulged a taste for furs and designer clothes and held an expensive country-club membership. In 1970 she built a $100,000 home in Boca Raton, Fla., since sold. The Cardinal is said to have paid Wilson a secret church...
...cops live outside the system: sometimes they steal because they are greedy, sometimes because they figure they deserve the money more than some pusher. Sometimes they actively bust heads because they think it works as a deterrent, and sometimes they just ignore everything they see, waiting for the pension 20 years will bring them. Often the job, with its endless contradictions, proves too much. As Ciello points out, Mafiosi never commit suicide, while cops kill themselves in droves...
...refused a bribe from FBI agents and that a bureau informant coached him to "tell anything" to the sheik. Should his appeal fail, Williams will probably resign. Expulsion, as the Senator glumly admits, would mean an unwanted "note in the history books," though it would not affect his pension-a generous $43,500 a year...
...whom Nixon had just released from prison on condition that he take no part in running the union until 1980; Harold Gibbons, a Hoffa loyalist who was boss of the Teamsters in St. Louis; and Jay Sarno, who had built two Las Vegas casino hotels with loans from Teamster pension funds...
...page book grew out of The Pension Grillparzer, the short story that Irving folded into the heart of Garp. That work tells of a father who takes his family to stay in a seedy Viennese hotel. It is home to a rundown Hungarian circus whose members include a shinless man who walks only on his hands and a depressed bear on a unicycle...