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Then last summer an anonymous postcard advised investigators that all was not well. Other tips followed, including a letter from nine unidentified police officers, disclosing that patrolmen were being forced to pay kickbacks to their commanders for off-duty work and that a cops' slush fund for social affairs and special police equipment had mysteriously disappeared. A department probe was launched, and when it began unearthing evidence of corruption, the grand jury took over. What it was investigating was a story of vice cops soliciting bribes and police shaking down people for money, merchandise and prostitutes' services. Under...
Frank Rich's material success may be no substitute for the intangibles, like pride in his work, but, the way his friends see it, Rich has come a long way since the days when he was trudging around with them in the Cambridge slush, agonizing over term papers and eating Barbecue Beef in the Lowell House dining room. What really gets them, though--what really sets their teeth gnashing--is that those days were so recent. That's just the way it happens, for some people. Before he could hang up his mortarboard, Rich was writing an article about Daniel...
Fish scales are at their best in loose snow and slush but are slightly less effective in their glide. Also, in hard-frozen crusty snow a slight--and extremely obnoxious--buzzing sound is created. If, however, you are one of those who have avoided central heating all these years as "unnatural," then you will also reject these recent attempts to make life easier and insist on waxing your skis...
...throw lavish parties at the Burning Tree Golf Club and produce timely gifts for key politicians. But Gulf Oil Corp. seems to have gone further than most. The giant company (1974 sales: $16.5 billion), now the target of four federal investigations, is accused of operating a covert $10 million slush fund for the benefit of some top politicians at home and abroad. The practice directly defies a federal law that forbids corporate donations to politicians running for national office. As a result of testimony that has recently become public, Gulf's top executives are in deep trouble, and many...
...special prosecutor that he had wide latitude over his generous budget. He was fined $1,000, Gulf paid another $5,000 fine, and the matter was temporarily dropped. But earlier this year, the Securities & Exchange Commission decided to sue many corporations for failing to disclose to their stockholders illegal slush funds. In Gulfs case, the suit led to a series of damaging disclosures...