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...month he will testify before the Senate's McClellan committee. Already the Justice Department is readying a score of new indictments. But the Government's fear has been that Valachi's startling confession might touch off a new wave of gangland killings as hoodlums sought to weed out bad risks. At week's end it happened. Two Brooklyn thugs died as bullets sprayed their cars in two separate attacks. One was a member of the Gallo gang, from which killers had been recruited for the rub-out of Albert Anastasia; the other was an ex-Gallo...
...Monkey's Man. On and on John babbles in some of the earthiest colloquialisms ever to come out of Goldwater country. On justice: "Jesus Christ in the Jimson weed, damned if they don't expect the law to protect them from themselves-from confidence games, whorehouses, intoxicating liquor after Saturday midnight . . . and their own walking shadows." On sex: "A man ought to have two women, one for bed and one to see the Haviland china don't get chipped." On finance: "It ain't natural for money to breed . . . You get too much...
...Farmers in an Urban Age, Agronomist Edward Higbee, a University of Rhode Island professor, takes a refreshingly clear-eyed look at the miracle and the mess. Sponsored by the Twentieth Century Fund, the book cuts through the confusion of federal farm policy like a well-honed scythe leveling a weed patch...
...wash and scratch a lot, I can tell you, which is killingly funny or something. And what else. Oh yes. A trip to Paris, where I lived with a down-and-out marquis. Mummy says the best way to keep from being raped by a weed is carry a pepper shaker in your purse...
...Chambers made some hard decisions inside I.C.I. He cut its 99,000 employees by 5%, trimmed costs to the point of printing its annual report in newspapers rather than sending copies to almost 475,000 shareholders. The company also stepped up and centralized its research, which has pioneered in weed killers, growth stimulants for plants, antimalarial drugs, improved aviation gas and a cheaper method of producing ammonia...