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...courtrooms drumming up business. One frequently offered service: asking clients for upfront money "to pay off the judge." The Feds evidently infiltrated judicial ranks with at least one visiting informer-judge: flamboyant downstate Circuit Judge Brocton Lockwood of Marion, who claims that he collected evidence of payoffs with a tape recorder stuffed into his cowboy boots. Lockwood found that the going rate to fix a drunken-driving charge...
...search for data is being steadily pushed back from childhood to earliest infancy and even before birth. One French obstetrician, for example, inserted a hydrophone into the uterus of a woman about to give birth and tape-recorded what the fetus could hear: the mother's loudly thumping heartbeat, a variety of whooshing sounds, the muffled but distinguishable voices of the mother and her male doctor, and, from a distance, the clearly identifiable strains of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
Although she once dictated a niagara of dialogue into a tape recorder every week, Nixon today works only on the daily plots and long-term story projections for Loving and All My Children. She supervises like a master marionetteer, manipulating her characters from above, dictating their future actions as much as nine months in advance...
...high-tech businesses, the tax break excludes such industries as real estate, banking, oil and gas. Otherwise the state has put few restrictions on the money. Says Governor David Treen: "Other states have placed the decision making in the hands of government, which then tangles the programs in red tape." In Louisiana, it will be up to private investors to pick winners...
...grown from 17% in 1970 to 62%; those with color TVs from 26% to 98.9%; those with air conditioners from 5.9% to 40%. Signs of a national shopping spree are everywhere. A new government survey of 65,000 families found that the most popular consumer purchases include video tape recorders ($700) and pianos...