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...hours and 55 minutes. He is also moving into the merchandising of some 200 Ringling Bros.-labeled products from bed sheets to vitamins-an operation that will add at least $1,000,000 to the circus' $16 million gross this year. And as he puffs on a Dino cigar and pops a Gelusil tablet for heartburn, he plots his next expansion of the circus itself. By 1973, he counts on fielding a third three-ring unit in the States and another to tour Europe. "In this day of sex, violence and X-rated movies," figures Irvin Feld, "what else...
Both sons of auto mechanics, Reds and Dino are high-school dropouts who long ago learned to hustle in the streets of Washington, D.C. Two years ago, they were snorting or shooting heroin, snatching purses and breaking into parked cars. They gave up drugs and street crime when they discovered the New Thing, founded by Colin ("Topper") Carew, 27, a former Boston gang leader who will soon earn a bachelor's degree from Yale. Financed mainly by foundation grants, the New Thing is, according to Carew, "a black arts high school in Washington for kids who have rejected public...
...Thing, Dino has become a dancer and Reds a drummer-both hope for show-business careers. They are also working on a film about hustling in the streets. "I want everything to be real," says Dino, "so that people can see what's really going down. When I look at TV, ain't nothing in there I've seen before. Like in all the pictures with black people, they got to be some white guy who's his best friend. It ain't always that way. And that show Julia-she's just...
Politically, Reds and Dino are pragmatically nonviolent. "The Panthers want a revolutionary war," says Dino, "but that ain't hip. The white man got over the black man by politics, and that's the only way we'll get back at them. Why commit suicide?" But the black-pride movement has given them and many other young blacks an assertive sense of their own worth. "If I walked into a building with white people three years ago," says Dino, "I hung my head down. No more! Now people sense that and don't mess with...
Like many other young blacks. Reds and Dino are vastly suspicious of the police. Recently, when they were leaving the apartment of a friend who lives in a predominantly white suburban building, they were surrounded by three police cars, thrown against one of the cars and searched. Says Reds: "This been happening so long you can't hardly get mad about it any more. Except that now we know it's something wrong with them, not with...