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...Mafia, for once, was not involved. The masterminds who pulled off Italy's ripest heist of the year are just greedy cheese merchants who smelled a good thing. When the Italian government last spring auctioned off 19,000 tons of Parmesan cheese that it had bought to support falling prices, a few wholesalers snapped up practically the whole lot-in effect, cornering the market. Ever since, the speculators have released their hoard of the golden, crumbly protein-rich cheese only when supplies were scarce...
Machine patronage is becoming a matter of increasing frustration to the city's growing minority population. Minority groups compose at least half of Chicago's population, yet they have been virtually starved of the ripest fruits the machine has to offer. Such a disgraceful percentage of high-ranking fire and police officers are white (and most of these Irish) that the courts were finally forced to interfere with city hiring policies...
There is nerve-and then again there is nerve. The kind they have lots of -too much of-in television is exhibited in its ripest form this week (NBC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) by Jack Lemmon, starring in a remake of John Osborne's The Entertainer. Archie Rice, that talentless, foul-spirited denizen of show biz's low depths, is, of course, the creation and sole property of Laurence Olivier-perhaps the greatest performance in a nonclassic role by the man who is our age's prince of players. There is no hope of duplicating what...
Thus, taking just these measures, the U.S. within a year could cut more than 2 million bbl. from daily usage. Given the political will, the nation could make even more enormous savings in ensuing years. The ripest area for cutbacks is in transportation, which uses 60% of all oil consumed by the U.S. The FEA has worked out a comprehensive program of a 300 per gal. gasoline surtax, mandatory fuel efficiency standards for new cars, high excise taxes on low-efficiency autos, and additional spending and operating subsidies for mass transit. Anticipated extra savings: 1.7 million...
Like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, Dentsu Advertising Ltd. has long dominated the business of mass selling in Japan, and its roster of clients gleams with famous names: Toyota, Pepsi-Cola, Nestle, Max Factor. The agency operates in one of the world's ripest ad markets: the Japanese watch more television than any other people, and are even more brand-conscious than Americans. Helped by a booming economy and a rising currency in recent years, Dentsu has grown particularly fast. In 1972 it elbowed McCann-Erickson out of second place in global billings, and now it has become...