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...impose tougher sentences. In 1972, only 37% of convicted tax cheaters went to jail; they stayed an average of eleven months. Last year 58% were put behind bars for terms averaging 26 months. On the state level, light sentences are still the rule. In Massachusetts, for example, the longest jail term for each count of tax evasion is five years, but first-time offenders receive an average sentence of six months-and only eleven evaders were packed off to the penitentiary last year. "Simply put," says Harry Mansfield, the senior tax attorney at the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray...
...sold secondhand airplanes, set up a company in 1976 that two years later bought Grumnian American Aviation Corp., maker of the Gulfstream line of corporate aircraft. Its principal product, the 19-passenger Gulfstream III fanjet aircraft, costs upwards of $10.5 million and, according to the offering prospectus, boasts the longest range and fastest cruising speed of any business aircraft. In 1982 the Savannah-based company's sales rose by 33%, to $575.5 million, and profits more than tripled, to $43 million...
...either side of the elbow; a 5-ft. 10-in. man with a 2¾-to 3-in. span is considered to have a medium frame.) The results of the study, says Dr. Paul Entmacher, chief medical director for the company, show "weights at which people live the longest. Only in that sense are they ideal or desirable...
...women's basketball team tied its longest winning streak of the season last night with its second upset in a row, overcoming Brown, 76-68, at Briggs Cage...
...served prison terms for their Watergate crimes, uncooperative G. Gordon Liddy did by far the longest stretch (52 months). Only four others served as long as a year: E. Howard Hunt, former Attorney General John Mitchell and Presidential Aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Prison terms for Perjurer Dwight Chapin (eight months), Burglary Plotters Jeb Magruder (seven months) and Egil Krogh (four months), Cover-Up Conspirator Charles Colson (seven months), Illegal Fund-Raiser Herbert Kalmbach (six months), John Dean (less than five months) and Dirty Trickster Donald Segretti (four months) seemed light to some, just to others...