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...think Government payments have something in common with the narcotics habit," he said. "Once on the habit, the victim becomes convinced he cannot live without the drug. In the jargon of the underworld, he's hooked. He'll do most anything to get his next fix, his next check. The pushers, in this case the Government bureaucrats and committees, constantly work to get more farmers hooked. The more that are hooked, the more the payments are, and the more assurance of their jobs and the perpetuation of the machine in power. Well, that...
...occur in New York City on an average day: one murder, four rapes, 22 holdups, 41 assaults, 117 grand larcenies, 123 burglaries. Taken to court, Mrs. Placente ended the day with a trial date in November. It seems likely that many more scofflaws will soon be in the same fix...
...easy as $500 down for a $20,000 house and lot, lowers FHA down payments for all buyers on higher-priced homes, lets the Government underwrite land-purchase and development loans for builders. The Government will provide urban-renewal payments to individual low-income families that want to fix up their own places, will also give low-income families rent supplements that it hopes will encourage the creation of as many as 375,000 new apartments. The construction industry, now running 3% ahead of last year, will get an additional stimulant to order steel, concrete...
...altimeter may have been off, and that someone on the ground falsified a weather report. Yet the board concludes that Cap tain Norris and his passengers are dead because of his error! Captain Norris' only errors seem to have been believing that a federally licensed mechanic would fix a compass and/or an altimeter, that a person on the ground would tell him the truth about a serious matter, and that his fellow man would give him decent treatment after he met his mountain...
Since John F. Kennedy in 1962 forced the nation's steelmen to pull back a $6-a-ton price boost, federal grand juries have voted seven indictments accusing the steel companies of conspiring to fix prices. In the most important of these cases, the Justice Department last week won a big, if qualified, victory...