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...long work weeks that frequently spill into weekends, the workaholic, chain-smoking, immaculately dressed Daniels has trimmed Playboy's bulging bureaucracy ("We had too many chiefs"). He abolished such jobs as vice president for public relations and for personnel, moving those functions to lower levels, and closed an unprofitable Playboy club in Detroit and a hotel in Jamaica. Daniels plans to concentrate on publishing, franchising-and gambling. The company's four casinos in England are its most profitable operation; they earned $10 million last year. Playboy plans a $50 million gambling palace in Atlantic City, N.J. Daniels also...
...would add to the already bad air and water pollution problem in the Los Angeles basin. Although no refining will take place in the area, critics of the Long Beach plan say that just shipping the oil through there will add to pollution: tankers continually emit fumes, sometimes spill oil, and will inevitably have accidents...
Frightening enough when they are alone or in pairs, youths in a gang are a formidable engine of mayhem. Today's urban gangs commit roughly 25% of the juvenile crime, and they are better organized than ever, more heavily armed and less queasy about the blood they spill...
...Fraud . .. deception ... playing with religious tradition." These harsh words, aimed at a new movement of Jewish-born Christians, spill forth from Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, normally one of Judaism's most temperate envoys to Christianity. His target: the so-called Messianic Jews, who insist that they can adopt a belief in Jesus as the Messiah and yet remain as Jewish as ever...
...pipe are flexible enough to withstand earthquakes that register 8.5 on the Richter scale-greater than the devastating 1964 Alaska quake that destroyed 30 blocks of downtown Anchorage. The entire system can be shut down in ten minutes if the pipeline breaks. A maximum of 50,000 bbl. can spill; valves at various intervals can be turned to stop the flow...