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...still blazing, Phillips was stalking bigger prey last week. An investigating grand jury has recommended the indictment of Hillel Levinson, Philadelphia's managing director, on a number of charges, including extortion. Complained Levinson's boss, Frank Rizzo: "A raw, naked power play." Retorted Phillips: "The effort to sink us can be attributed to the fact that we are hitting pay dirt. Our investigations have got closer to those who wield political power, and that makes people in power uncomfortable...
...achieved by Japan Inc., a vast army of devoted, disciplined businessmen. To Americans the Japanese too often appear as some sort of grotesque national parody-crowds of transistor salesmen with kamikaze pilots' scarves, legions of passionate new consumers teeming on a string of islands which are about to sink beneath their growing population and industrial swill...
...ordinary gamekeeper can build behind any ordinary coat rack. Other caches are less allusive but more ingenious. As Krotz's book amply diagrams, hiding places can be constructed behind false electric-plug plates, in drains or even around drain pipes. "Make a mysterious apparition of metal under the sink-a touch filthy. Who would want to stick his hand up there? You will...
...them. There were white-hatted legionnaires, French paratroopers in red berets, then Americans in khaki and olive drab. After 3 p.m. there was never an empty seat on "the Continental Shelf," the raised veranda of the Continental Palace Hotel. Now there are many. The realization is only beginning to sink in on the Saigonese that the Americans are not coming back after...
...information to a shipboard computer. The computer, in turn, kept the ship in one place by activating a series of water jets and small propellers placed at intervals along the ship's hull. Next the barge opened its sea cocks until it had taken on enough water to sink to a depth of 150 ft. It was maneuvered directly beneath the Glomar Explorer's moon pool and held in place by stanchions from the mother ship. Pipe from the ship reached down to the barge and attached itself to the giant grappling claws, which resembled a series...