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...operator with an unsavory local reputation. She was arrested last June with her younger brother Jerome and charged with stealing $850 worth of property from two mobile homes. Jerome turned state's evidence and got a three-year sentence; Joan later admitted her guilt but still received a stiff seven to ten years in prison. She had spent 81 days in the Beaufort jail, awaiting transfer to a women's correctional institution, when the killing occurred...
Rising sales of tennis equipment and enrollments in health clubs suggest that the U.S. is becoming a nation of fitness fiends. Yet for every jogger puffing through a park, there are probably still a dozen more Americans for whom a stiff workout is getting up during a TV commercial to fetch another beer. Most physical-fitness advocates approach this sedentary majority by exhorting or even trying to scare them into activity. But Laurence Morehouse, a physiologist at the University of California at Los Angeles, is currently winning many converts with another approach. Out since March, his new book Total Fitness...
...group of mostly liberal thinkers, including Economist Wassily Leontief, Investment Banker Robert V. Roosa and United Auto Workers' President Leonard Woodcock, have called for the establishment of a U.S. office of national economic planning. They have in mind not a stiff bureaucracy that would sap freedoms by handing down directives, but a forward-looking group of several hundred scientists and technicians (and a few economists) who would study the future of the U.S. economy much as a savvy company studies its market. Relying on such factors as population trends and the likely availability of resources, they would try to estimate...
...companies. For example, profit-making companies in the U.S. pick up garbage at a lower cost than city sanitation departments do, and United Parcel Service often delivers packages faster and cheaper than the U.S. Postal Service. Economist Walter Heller advocates a market approach to fighting pollution. His idea: levy stiff taxes on the discharge of effluents; the market would reward with high profits the companies that did the most to clean up the environment, and penalize polluters with skimpy earnings or actual losses...
...real scene-stealers are the supporting characters. Dan Strickland as the Duke is a walking cartoon of the stereotypical stiff-upper-lip Englishman (there a even a number called "Stiff Upper Lip"): he slinks around the stage in an unhealthy slouch, his face frozen in a mournful sneer. Another cartoon character with a face to match is Jansen, a Revenue Officers (Timothy Wallace), who rushes in and out pursuing those clever bootleggers, the scowl across his bulldog J. Edgar Hoover jowls growing deeper each time he's outwitted...