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Power Struggle. Why all the artillery? As the cops figure it, the thugs were less afraid of a police bust than of each other. The meeting in the mountains was apparently called to settle a power struggle between the younger Mafiosi, who are keen on such things as dope smuggling, kidnaping and other urban crimes, and their extortion-oriented elders, who have been taking a pounding from the police lately. Over the past two years, Calabrian officials, using special legislation, have sent 274 Mafiosi into "enforced residence" in Northern Italy, threatened another 789 with similar exile, put 198 under surveillance...
...irrelevant to the housing needs of the poor." Some projects have turned into slums as squalid as the shanties that they replaced. St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe project, hailed as an architectural gem when it was built in 1954 for $117 million, has become a center of vandalism, muggings, dope, sexual perversion, rape and homicide. Stairwells and hallways reek of old garbage and excrement. Recently, elevator repairmen refused to work in the buildings because of repeated sniping incidents. Despite low rents, the project today is 43% vacant. Says the Rev. Buck Jones: "People are moving out because they are scared...
...broader scale we should all quit our masochistic flag-waving for drugs. Roszak doesn't have much faith in dope as the way to achieve the new life, and as much as I'd rather not. I have to agree with him. The hallucinogens could easily become the opiate of the counter culture...
...have thrown the timing off in the line and affected the team's offensive unity. Harvard also may have made a mistake in trying to grind out yardage against a proven defense, using two sabpar backs. Third, Harvard's lack of imagination made it easy for the Indians to dope out the Crimson attack...
...difficult not to idolize Gnossos somewhere in your deepest libido; he gets away with everything. He does incredible varieties and quantities of dope but never flips out; he treats girls like objects and never feels guilty; he can go to war and not be shot; he can act outrageously and never be reproached. He is the complete hip college hero, and the aura of this rubs over to Farina...