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Randall, especially, knows whereof he writes: he was director of a four-year investigation of the auto repair racket for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly. In that position he discovered that auto mechanics are, as often as not, incompetent hacks. None of the 50 states requires that automobile mechanics be licensed, says Randall, although "persons engaged in less life-and-death-re-lated professions such as beauticians, barbers, and real estate agents generally must pass proficiency tests and be licensed in order to practice their trades...
About 10 years ago, the Union Corse began to move into the U.S. to fill the vacuum created by the partial withdrawal of the Mafia from the narcotics racket. Its chief contact in the U.S. became Florida Gang Boss Santo Trafficante Jr., who traveled to Saigon and Hong Kong to work out narcotics deals with the Corsicans and later turned up in Ecuador to check out a cocaine network in which he had been offered a partnership. The Union Corse also supplied and financed the new gangs of South Americans, Puerto Ricans and blacks, who moved into the vacant territories...
GUESTMANSHIP. Debuting guests of an athletic Host can be unbothered through Sept. 21 by using variations of the Substitute-Weapon Ploy. If the Host lives near a golf course, the Guest arrives sporting a vigorous smile - and a tennis racket. If the Host has his own ostentatiously tended tennis court, the Guest arrives with a vigorous smile and an archery set. Note: exuberance is as important as the Substitute Weapon. This July, armed with the proper smile, a nonswimmer was able to approach the edge of his Host's pool carrying a bowling ball. His words "but I thought...
Lutz has been playing tennis since his ninth birthday, when his father gave him a junior-size racket, a certificate for twelve lessons and a pat on the back. As a youngster in Southern California, he won regional and national singles titles. Then he entered the University of Southern California and became best known as Stan Smith's doubles partner. The pair won the national collegiate championships in 1967 and 1968; also in 1968 they took the U.S. Open and amateur titles and the first of three successive Davis Cup victories. Joining Texas Promoter Lamar Hunt...
SHAFT'S BIG SCORE brings back the black private eye who divides his time almost equally between brawls and bedrooms. Here, one of Shaft's fillies has a brother mixed up in the numbers racket. When the brother's storefront insurance office is bombed, the police find his body in the debris but no trace of the $250,000 that he and his partner had stashed in the company safe. Shaft starts to track the money down, a process that eventually involves him with some shady types from Downtown, some anxious cops and a bevy of slinky...