TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
Tidbits and Outrages Yncfe Sam, the Angel Barry Goldwater’s fears of what the iberals will do next are not totally mfounded. Some months ago, we report:d that one state now has drive-in...
...Recently a reader called our &tention to The Grantsmanship Center f Los Angeles which is dedicated to leveloping “self-help in non-profit organizations” and to encouraging “cooperation 2etween funding sources and applicant xganizations...
...In more mundane terms, you sally forth to one of the four jurors’ rooms on the third floor of the old Pension Building and sit and wait and wait and wait...
...It is Ryan, too, who gives the pre-service lecture on the glories of the jury system and he does such a good job of this you throw back your head, thrust out your chin and sally forth burning with inward fires to preserve justice for all...
...In our Western society, it should not become a technique for exploitation of the public...
...Tell me, is your case fascinating...
...Spargo had been working for Moses for 30 years and was closer to Moses than any other aide...
...Unlike the other Moses Men, he was close to the Boss personally as well as professionally...
...He is earning $75,000 a year and spend...
...Its bi-monthly News coniains such articles as “Uncle Sam, the Angel” and “$14,623,392 in Funds Raised by First Grantsmanship Center Graduates...
...We don’t want any negative thinking around here,” he said in an explanatory memo to the staff...
...Alexander Haig says he isn’t startled by them: “Men who have worked together for a number of years in any organization always dispense with everything but the crudest pragmatic articulation of issues...
...You are a juror...
...By any standard -including the one that, in the Triborough empire, really mattered: the money that Moses had let him makeSpargo was Moses’ favorite...
...Spargo had introduced him to the woman who was to become his second wife...
...Do it Sunday,” he snaps...
...ing the $41,000 that’s lefl after taxes and premium payments on his $250,000 life insurance...
...A Juror’s Day What every former juror knows is never told by the regular court reporters...
...Judge Joseph M. F. Ryan, Jr...
...What case...
...But here it is from Betty Beale of The Washington-Star News, who was freed from the purdah of the women’s section to give this account of her own experience : Jury experience in Washington is an experience unknown, it seems, to most of the social set...
...was my rejoinder...
...The doctor has to make do with a home with two fireplaces: eight TV sets, and a swimming pool...
...In addition to the problems that arise from having nothing left over, the doctor has to face a shortage of garage space: he owns two late model Lincoln Continentals and one 1974 Pontiac Firebird...
...Therein lies the biggest gripe of the 270 to over 400 petit jurors who report for duty in Superior Court the first Tuesday in every month...
...Dean Burch says: “What emerges from the transcript is life as it is...
...is the man who decides if and when a juror may be-excused from serving and his reputation for toughness is well earned...
...Doctor’s Difficulties AU of us who spena every dollar we make car sympathize with the plighi of the 35-year-old Florid2 physician described in the March issue of Medica, Economics...
...It is how things actually are, warts and all...
...Thus a recent AMA panel warned against quackery among America’s acupuncturists...
...Since the government pays $20 a day to a juror for a 9 to 4:30 day, minus an hour for lunch, that’s over $3 an hour for playing games...
...The corporate tax rate is supposed to be 48 Der cent...
...It’s probably a fair guess that the District court system has done more to brush up expertise at cards than any other branch of government...
...No Polyannas They The White House staff cannot be accused of viewing life through rose-colored glasses...
...ANew Way to AvoidBank Failures It is well known that an earnest study, of the tax laws can be rewarding, and it is good to see the rewards go to the needy...
...When Spargo told Moses the truth about the Fair’s finances, Moses fired him on the spot...
...Some months ago, we report:d that one state now has drive-in food {tamps...
...Take these reactions to the transcripts...
...Proof that you are contracted to do a certain amount of work every week, regardless of jury service, doesn’t faze him...
...I have served as a juror for only 2% hours and I’m in my third week...
...puncturists may not realize at first is that the doctors are trying to pro tect them from dl those problems that come with having nothing left aftei the $41.000 is gone...
...The doctors solemnly intoned: “In China, acupuncture is not practiced for money...
...So you sit, you doze, you read or you play bridge...
...Speak Right Up, Man Robert Caro, in his new book about Robert Moses, tells this story about the time when almost none of the great paver’s associates had the courage to tell him that the 1964-65 World’s Fair was a fiscal disaster: The only one of Moses’ aides with enough guts (and money) to tell the Boss the unpleasant truths was George Spargo, then chairman of the Fair’s finance committee...
...gasped more than one partygoing innocent during the past month...
...Tidbits and Outrages Yncfe Sam, the Angel Barry Goldwater’s fears of what the iberals will do next are not totally mfounded...
...they double-dated together...
...The nation’s banks, according to a study by an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, have decreased their effective tax burden from 38 per’ cent in 1961 to 16 per cent in 1972...
...It is life in government and politics, life in industry and business-and, yes, life in the editorial offices of every newspaper...
...You can wait for three or more days without hearing your name called, enviously watching others depart on one case after another to render decisions that would make the blind lady with the scales proud...
...He alsa bought a $2,700 boat and spends $1,000 a year on golf and $100 a month for heating his pool...
...What the acu...
...It is reassuring to know, however, that in the midst of problems such as these, dedicated physicians squeeze out a bit of their valuable time to protect the public...
Vol. 6 • September 1974 • No. 7
