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...Mendell, the gang last December broke into a vacant building near a police station in a seedy section of Chicago's Near North Side. With acetylene torches, they burned their way into a jewelry store next door, used an electronic device to circumvent a burglar alarm and stole more than $1 million worth of jewelry, silver and furs...
...gasoline station that he owns. He also made an undetermined number of interest-free loans to his various relatives. He employed a staff psychologist at the council who had no degree in psychology and whose home address turned out to be a vacant lot. In addition, Dean spent $300,000 on a farm worker project in which no trainees ever served, and paid for farm machinery that was nowhere to be found...
...about it. Its shortcomings and its excesses are hindrances that cannot be overlooked. It could be that because of the three years off, Springsteen has lost an essential edge and been too compulsive about his album; we hope that is all it is. But when I look into the vacant eyes of the man on his album cover, and remember how many talents have burned out and gone maundering off into self-indulgence and pretentiousness, I start to think that there may be all too much more. But only the next album will tell if the "future of rock...
...worse problem is finding qualified people to fill DOE posts at the high level of Assistant Secretary. Now three such positions remain vacant, and few people seem willing to undergo the months of congressional scrutiny and cross-examination that have become standard for anybody willing to take a job in a policymaking area as contentious as energy. Example: Lynn Coleman, once a partner in John Connally's Houston law firm, which has oil industry clients, waited eight months until the suspicious, supercautious Senate finally approved his nomination as DOE general counsel. Schlesinger has not yet submitted the names...
...ally on the three-man board was William Jenkins, who complained bitterly about harassment by environmentalists and quit. But Jimmy Carter felt that the TVA had lost its sense of mission. It had, he complained, "become dormant and just another power company." One result was that to fill a vacant directorship nine months ago, Carter appointed Freeman, then a principal architect of the Administration's energy policy. The President decided to make him the chairman upon Wagner's retirement...