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...this year, the federal trustbusters have won twelve criminal indictments against U.S. industry for price-fixing in various fields. The number is by no means a record; 37 indictments were returned in 1962 and 17 last year. But each case seems to get closer to the consumer's wallet. Last month a federal grand jury indicted eight leading steel companies on charges of rigging prices in the steel that goes into cars, refrigerators and washing machines. Last week the trustbusters-struck hard at the belt:in the biggest indictment yet brought in the food field, they made price-fixing...
...seven turned on Corbel, a former boxer beat him to the ground, and demanded money. He threw them the total contents of his wallet (five dollars) and fled...
...government overthrows in Saigon in three months. "What you've got to learn in Viet Nam," says a U.S. Army major in the Delta, "is that the name of the game is frustration, and you simply have to live with it." Another Yank keeps a card in his wallet to pull out in moments of despair. It reads: "Patience...
...owner was. So Mickey Spillane, 45, had to report the theft to the Sarasota, Fla., cops. Moped he defensively: "I know what you're going to say: 'Go find it yourself.' " Gone with the car were his wife's engagement and wedding rings, his wallet, and the only manuscript of his new book, The Body Lovers. The manuscript he didn't mind. "That just means I've got to sit down and do three more days' work...
...townies," attacked David A. Gantz of Cincinnati, Ohio, as he was walking back from the Business School parking lot. The youths, approaching from the Cambridge side of the river, knocked Gants to the ground and struck him with a silver-plated revolver. They got away with his wrist-watch, wallet, and $17 in cash...