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...Harrison Salisbury, writing in the New York Times, was reminded of the informer in czarist Russia who reported an assassination plot and, when he was disbelieved, turned out himself to be the assassin. During the New York cop-killer man hunt (see following story), one officer left a dollar tip for the waitress after talking with an informer over lunch, then glanced back as he was walking out to see the man pocketing the buck and leaving a quarter instead. "That's just the way informers are," explains the officer resignedly...
Missing Students. The racial tip came as no surprise. Boston's white enrollment has been dropping steadily since 1965 while minority enrollment has been climbing. Last year, in the opening phase of forced busing, the enrollment was 52% white and 48% black and other minorities. Now the proportion of the pupils actually attending school has shifted to 54% minority and 46% white. Although a few more students trickle into school each day, fully 27% of the city's 76,127 students in the public schools have not yet attended a class this year. More than half...
...looked down at his pants abstractly, proudly, and said inconsequentially, "I made these pair myself. The tip used to hold a little jewel, a fake ruby, but it fell...
...which have a range of about 15 miles, is to apprise other drivers of road hazards, weather conditions and emergencies. On the nation's highways this summer, auto-borne vacationers with CBs could get all this information-and a lot more. A family returning from Maine took a tip from a driver who called himself Thermidor and lucked into an exceptional lobster restaurant. Some of the CB messages are unembarrassedly commercial. A group of CB-assisted hookers plies one of the main highway approaches to Los Angeles ("This is Tender Love. I've got Lady Jane here ready...
...combination of resurging inflation, tight money, climbing interest rates, and inadequate Government stimulus to the economy will choke off the recovery, possibly as early as the middle of next year, before it has done much to bring down the nation's high unemployment rate, and perhaps even tip the economy into a new slump...