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...least at the moment, the voters feel most intensely about the war-an issue that only a few months ago seemed to have subsided. Ranking a distant second to Viet Nam are taxes, inflation, crime and busing-all rated about equally aggravating to voters. Lesser but still important concerns are drugs and the lack of credibility among political leaders. There is a widespread feeling that the nation's millions of "little guys" are repeatedly being victimized by a relatively few "big guys." Voter comments on all of these issues are rarely restrained, often angry...
...Umbertos Clam House in Manhattan's Little Italy on April 7 by a small-time racketeer who quickly spread the word. Most interested was Carmine ("Sonny Pinto") DeBiase, a soldier in the Mafia clan once headed by the late Vito Genovese. He recruited Phil ("Fat Fungi") Gambino, a distant relative of Carlo's, and two Brooklyn mobsters identified so far only as brothers...
...during his medical training. Clearly, he knows his stuff, and making science engrossing is an admirable venture. An unnecessarily pretentious forward states: "There has been so much ominous talk and frivolous speculation for so many years that the public now regards mind control as a problem removed to the distant future...
...hands were encrusted with years of grit. He wore a green plaid coat, bib overalls tucked into high rubber boots and a John Deere cap. He was immediately suspicious, but loosened up when the sheriff told him, with a perfectly straight face, that the visitor was a distant relative from Chicago...
...Crimson, shooting 772 as a team, easily outdistanced second place Boston College to win the team title. The B.C. Eagles finished a distant 32 strokes behind Harvard at 804. Team par for the tournament...