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...jealous white authorities. Police contended he was the biggest heroin dealer in New York City, maybe in the country. To blacks in his old Harlem neighborhood, Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes, 45, was a legend of defiance and success. What he had he flaunted, and he had a great deal: 300 custom-tailored suits, a string of glamourous women and powerful friends in show business and politics. He drove two Citroën-Maseratis and four Mercedes. Ghetto kids, said a black police detective, "think he's the greatest thing since Muhammad Ali," an idol to emulate. Prosecutors saw Barnes...
...while, she lived in a custom 8-ft. by 28-ft., self-propelled motor home with her constant companions?a miniature gray poodle named Jacques and a huge, dignified Scottish deerhound named Ghillie. She moored the $18,000 bus on a dairy farm in Maryland. A Government limousine would pull up every morning, and Ray and her two dogs would be whisked to the AEC offices. At her suggestion, the AEC was reorganized in 1975 into two agencies and Ray then moved on to become Assistant Secretary of State for scientific affairs. When Secretary of State Henry Kissinger dodged...
...Thou, Nature, art my goddess, to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me..." King Lear...
...cheese and roast beef sandwiches) before settling down to talk. The President was asked if he were disturbed by the criticism of the trip throughout the Arab world. "Do I look worried?" he answered with a chuckle. "As you see, I am quite calm, quite happy. This is our custom in the Arab world. We agree on strategic issues, but maybe we don't agree on tactical issues...
...your door For just $25 (custom lyrics cost