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...temper, Frank Sinatra finally showed up to testify before the House Select Committee on Crime and promptly denounced the legislators for permitting "character assassination." Specifically, he fumed that Mafia Enforcer Joseph Barboza had been unchallenged in testifying that Sinatra had "fronted" for the Mafia in real estate investments. "This bum went running off at the mouth. I resent it. I won't have it. I'm not a second-class citizen." Shaking a newspaper headline (WITNESS LINKS SINATRA WITH MAFIA) Sinatra snapped: "That's charming. That's all hearsay evidence...
...bilkers are later caught, convictions are hard to get because many suspects cannot be identified to the satisfaction of courts. Now two new devices on the market are enabling stores to record identification that even the cleverest forger cannot fake: his thumbprint. The systems cannot prevent the acceptance of bum checks, but they provide a powerful psychological deterrent to swindlers...
...discussing the ECAC's, Terry's eyes glossed over and his voice quivered. "I couldda had class. I couldda been somebody, a contendah, steadda bein' a bum, which is what I am," he said...
Only two per cent of the Class of 1971 said they wanted blue-collar jobs. Several, however, expected to earn a living in sports fields, including two who expected to sign professional baseball contracts and a professed ski bum. Other students expected to work in harpsichord building, stained glass work, the Boston City Countil, housepainting, and "random employment to pay off Harvard debts...
...anyone on the sabre team loses," Valenzuela lamented before the third round, "he's going to feel like a bum, became that could be the match...