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...city and Local 195 of the Public Works Union agreed last Tuesday to accept Robert L. Stutz as arbitor in the contract dispute that caused a one-day sanitation employees strike last week...
...back, what? An aged dory, weathering silver among the four thousand blades of brown grass, each painted separately in egg tempera? In fact, no: a dark, secretive-looking Stutz Blackhawk, $38,500 worth of Republican Mafia dream-hearse with a Cadillac engine and custom-fitted luggage, polished like an immense eggplant. Frank Sinatra has one, Elvis Presley owns two; but this model, an engraved plate on the dashboard attests, was fabricated in Turin for Andrew Wyeth. "People expect me to get around in an oxcart," says the painter. "But this thing's pretty useful. I can drive it into...
Similar charges surfaced last week about Smith and Nixon's 1968 campaign. According to David Stutz, an ex-IRS agent who now works for San Diego's district attorney, a federal anticrime strike force and grand jury in 1970 heard testimony from Charles Pratt, owner of a San Diego cab company, about illegal contributions. Pratt said that Smith had asked him to buy a ticket to a $1,000-a-plate Nixon campaign dinner in 1968. When Pratt replied that he did not have the money, Smith allegedly told him that it could "come out of the business...
Armed with the Pratt testimony, Stutz and other members of the strike force began to examine the books of the ad agency controlled by Smith. "It appeared that there were tens of thousands of dollars in contributions that had been handled in the same manner, and most of them were from companies owned by Smith," says Stutz, but "one look was all we got before we were stopped." Stutz claims that the investigation was called off by San Diego's U.S. Attorney Harry Steward, who had publicly stated that he owed his position to Smith's backing. Stutz...
...couple of years ago, is back to glamour cars with a vengeance. Last year 120 Rolls-Royces were sold in Beverly Hills alone. Polly Bergen traded in her new Mercedes for a one-of-a-kind 1957 Bentley convertible, while Dick Martin and Elvis Presley have bought $35,000 Stutz Blackhawks. Steve McQueen recently wanted a very special present for his friend Ali MacGraw-a limited-edition 1969 Mercedes 280-3 convertible. A dealer found one in St. Louis and had it flown to Los Angeles only to have McQueen turn it down. The interior, said the actor...