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...wealthiest communities in the country, while Baldwin Park is a blue-collar, civil service suburb boxed in by industrial tax havens. According to 1968-69 figures, homeowners in Baldwin Park paid a relatively high school-tax rate of $5.48 per $100 of assessed property valuation, while in plush residential Beverly Hills owners were paying only $2.38. Yet even though Baldwin Park received more state aid than Beverly Hills, each of its children got only $577.49 worth of education that year, while their counterparts in the wealthier suburb received $1,231.72 a head. Wrote the court: "We cannot agree that Baldwin...
...more compelling impression is that of a VIP who feels it beneath his dignity to display any warmth for or interest in ordinary people. For six days, Agnew enjoyed the plush appointments of Seoul's Chosun Hotel, emerging only for ceremonial functions or to play golf and tennis. One day when it rained, he ordered a Ping Pong table sent up to his room. He visited no American soldiers, Korean hospitals, schools, marketplaces or housing projects. In Singapore, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia, the routine was essentially the same. In Kenya, Agnew visited the Treetops wild-game preserve, conferred...
...Djakarta, the municipal government last year took in $6,000,000, a third of its revenue, from three licensed casinos, numerous slot machines, horse racing, greyhound races, jai alai and a local lottery. The Casino Pix, located on the 13th floor of the Sarinah Department Store, is hardly plush as casinos go. The clients are apt to shun tie and jacket for open sports shirts. There is no alcohol, no floor show, no music-but big winners are provided with a ride home to protect their cash. "Elsewhere it is the bandits who benefit," says Djakarta's forceful mayor...
...public the list of military installations where liquor is sold to servicemen by the bottle. The Army once classified as a military secret a modern adaptation of the bow and arrow. The Air Force stamped secret on pictures of the interiors of transport planes that had been remodeled with plush lounges for the comfort of traveling brass. The Navy put a secrecy stamp on a report of attacks by sharks on seamen, even though they took place in New York Harbor (where few people swim any more) in 1916. When one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote a note...
Carmody refused to disclose just how much money he had made since he opened up the business. Yet it must be considerable, for Carmody not only has numerous employees and a plush office, he also spends $1000 on advertisements per week...