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Bribe Squeezers. Mobutu realizes that the first necessity for the northeast is the re-establishment of fundamental order. The Simbas killed or carried off almost all the trained civil servants, leaving vast areas of the north east governed by second-rate profiteers who squeeze bribes and extortion mon ey out...
In many towns where Newhouse tries to take over a paper, its ownership is likely to be downright hostile. In Mobile, he was warmly received. The majority stockholders had been disturbed by paltry dividends, and they resented the hammer lock held on the papers by the local management. The stockholders...
Providing past percentages prevail, one out of eight students figures to squeeze out at least one grade below C-. But almost two out of three will get nothing but A's and B's -- a much higher percentage than Harvard-Radcliffe students manage during the academic year.
Just who is being pinched by the money squeeze - and how badly? The victims are mostly the risky "marginal" borrowers. Many lenders are rejecting youngsters facing the draft, chronic job jumpers, families already loaded with debts. Almost every other consumer, however, can still find a friendly lender ready to advance...
The man fingered by some drivers was Canada's Billy Foster, 28, a hot shoe in his second year at Indianapolis. At the prerace safety meeting, track officials repeatedly warned against trying to steal too much ground on the closely packed first lap. Foster missed part of the meeting...