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ATLANTIC CITY--In the economic boom that casino gambling has brought to Atlantic City, two local unions have emerged as powerful forces in the casino industry, and law enforcement officials say they are increasingly concerned that the unions have ties to organized crime figures.

TORONTO, Nov. 30--When Midland Doherty Ltd., Canada's third-largest investment firm, goes public next spring, one of its biggest shareholders will be a quiet, dapper financier, George S. Mann.

Evidence is growing that natural gas is more abundant than previously believed, that it will last longer and that it may be the United States' best immediate alternative to imported petroleum. Last year gas production increased for the first time in six years, and a further increase is considered likely this year.

DETROIT, Nov. 30--Six months ago, car dealers across the country were finding it hard to meet customer demand for the very smallest, most fuel-efficient models on their lots. Today, to the dealers' distress, many of these subcompacts are accumulating in new-car lots.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30--The intellectual breeze sweeping into Washington has taken a brisk conservative turn, but the breeze contains some political crosscurrents.

CONZA DELLA CAMPAGNA, Italy, Nov. 30--A week after southern Italy was struck by its worst earthquake in 65 years, the search for survivors under the ruins has been abandoned and the problem now is to provide vaccination, water, food, clothes and temporary shelter for several hundred thousand homeless people.

A city tax abatement and incentive program originally created to upgrade cold water flats has recently begun to show a trend of excessively benefiting "the luxury end" of the city's housing in prime residential areas of Manhattan, the City Comptroller asserted yesterday.

ANAHEIM, Calif., Nov. 30--Almost 10,000 people who had paid $12 to $15 for tickets did not show up today for the Rams' game against the New York Jets, pursuing the premise that it was unlikely to be much of a contest.

LONDON, Nov. 30--In the next few months, the British Government will find out just how good a venture capitalist it is.

Hundreds of thousands of cars choked highways across the New York metropolitan area and crowds of homebound travelers jammed bus, rail and air terminals late yesterday as the four-day Thanksgiving weekend drew to a close with the customary crunch of tie-ups and delays.

Almost 25 years ago, Commentary magazine published a scathing article by Dwight Macdonald entitled "Scrambled Eggheads on the Right." It was a devastating analysis of the National Review, a new conservative journal of opinion, which was then 10 weeks old.