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...outside the Ingleside station. An angry motorist ran down two police pickets at the Mission station. In some cases, police used their guns to defend themselves. Requests for private armed guards soared, coming mostly from the city's banks and financial houses. The guard-dog business was also brisk. Complained nonstriking Police Captain Jeremiah Taylor, with some exaggeration: "The kids-the kinkies -are tearing the town apart. We can't handle...
When Prohibition hit the U.S. in 1919, it looked as if the brothers Bronfman had no place left to turn and were out of business. Not for long. They quickly developed a brisk trade with U.S. bootleggers, and Sam snapped up a foundering Canadian competitor called Joseph E. Seagram & Sons. Seagram's represented quality, and even in the days of bathtub gin, Sam always approved of quality. By the end of the '20s, more than 1 million gallons a year of Canadian whisky came illicitly into the U.S., and a sizable proportion of it came from Seagram...
...years later, however, Warhol's cans and Cokes and Marilyns look somehow stranded. Incessant exposure has dulled their impact, and what one sees is the brisk, elegant and paper-thin sensibility of a commercial illustrator-designed-in rawness, hand-rubbed indifference...
...White House staff, he says: "I know who the charmers are-and the hard-asses too." Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld has instructed Jack about the many steps that go into White House decision making. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, has given him brisk tutorials on the state of the economy, talks that Jack has particularly relished...
...minutes with a stethoscope"), he continued to fight for a flight even after he quit the Air Force in 1963 and took over as NASA's director of flight-crew operations, winch made inm boss of all the astronauts. A physical-fitness nut who runs-not jogs-a brisk two miles a day, Slayton finally found a cardiologist who was willing to certify inm for space-and a coveted seat on the joint flight. Says the graying space rookie: "For some people life begins at 40; for me it's going to be more like...