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...Momo") Giancana is a top-echelon Chicago mobster who brags that he reads Shakespeare. As the star boarder of the Cook County jail for the past seven months, he has had plenty of time to brush up on the bard-and, no doubt, to reflect on Caesar's fate and other most unkindest cuts. For whatever else he may have done in a long and lucrative career-and he has only twice gone to prison before-Sam at 57 is in durance vile for indulging his red-blooded American right to plead the Fifth Amendment...
...books have thick paper and plastic covers to withstand rough wear and tropical rains. One shipment of 2,000 books survived two weeks in boxes under nine feet of flood water. They range from simple hygiene texts-Now let's brush our teeth...
Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin, who at a tender age survived the Russian Revolution, does not claim any military history-except what he records at the end of his brush. He found General Johnson a most engaging subject, but was dismayed by the fact that the general scheduled the sittings for 7:30 a.m. Mrs. Johnson had breakfast ready but, sighed Boris, who is essentially a night person, "I'm not hungry that early...
Look for Problems. "Opportunities are usually found where the problems are found," says Los Angeles' Fred Bailey, 39, who founded a small microwave company on a $500 stake, foresaw a shortage of ordnance parts for brush-fire war, and started to make them, earning $2,000,000. His word to entrepreneurs: "Go into anything that will deal heavily in helping solve the problems of the population explosion-to help provide food and fresh water to provide transportation and communications systems, to clean the air." Charles Gelman, 33, a Michigan chemist who was brought up in an orphanage, figured that...
...City's opposition will also have a lot to do with the chances of the alternatives. Everyone knows Cambridge opposes the Inner Belt, and unless politicians--and, more importantly, residents--are able to demonstrate that this opposition is strong and determined, the DPW will be tempted to brush aside the alternatives. Even if the railroad alternatives prove unfeasible, public pressure may force the DPW to make the Brookline-Elm Street route as palatable as possible by altering the design and helping with relocation problems. Leaders of the public opposition to the Inner Belt ought to be prepared to show their...