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Unwanted Protection. The Defense League's response so far has been to picket public meetings, bait Mayor John Lindsay, provide armed escorts for Jewish teachers in slum neighborhoods, and scuffle with Nazi Party members. J.D.L. also sued to reopen the City College of New York this spring after a student demonstration temporarily closed the campus...
...certain cynical interest in corralling the law-and-order voters. John McGiver plays him with the voice of high-pitched dismay and the countenance of flinty melancholy that make all his appearances comic delights. Naturally, this plot thickens and quickens as the rival newsmen cook up story angles and bait the mayor and the sheriff as knaves and boobs. The notion that journalism radiates intelligence and innate purity is fairly amusing all by itself...
...were relieved to get back to school where at least some of the people over thirty weren't really over thirty (it's only incidentally related to age) and most of the others were far too occupied writing treatises on the differences between Ramist and Aristotelian logic to bait you. Except, of course, for an occasional mini-confrontation with an interested, bespeckled administrator who wanted to know why you had to paint that fence and why you thought your boredom was more profound than that of an eight-year-old who got tired of the same old toys (you never...
...elite Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. Others may wear a beard as an ensign of protest. The clean-shaven Grigorenko's emblem is a cane that he carries because of war wounds. With it, he has been known to fight off policemen and young Communists dispatched to bait him when he appears...
Last July, President Johnson signed the Bank Protection Act, which requires federally insured financial institutions to take at least minimal precautions. The first regulation goes into effect this week, when banks must appoint security officers or risk $100-a-day fines. By 1970, banks must supply tellers with marked "bait" money, keep cash on hand to a "reasonable minimum," and install alarms as well as tamper-proof locks on exterior doors and windows. Banks are also urged to install cameras that take thieves' pictures...