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...DROPOUT WHO RETURNED...
...mortgage on the house and was working overtime and even moonlighted as a cabbie in the winter wasn't so happy. How come he had put out so much good money and still had a son who looked like his brother Tony's kid, who was a high school dropout and wrecked people's cars for the insurance when he needed extra cash...
Vigorous Counterattack. FDA officials are vigorously counterattacking by appearing before legislative committees, enlisting the support of the nation's doctors, and encouraging the Justice Department to crack down on Laetrile pushers. Among those already convicted: Medical School Dropout Ernst T. Krebs Jr. of San Francisco, who with his late father first advocated Laetrile as an anticancer drug in the U.S. Four of Krebs' associates, some of whom amassed millions of dollars, were found guilty last month of conspiring to smuggle and distribute contraband Laetrile in the U.S. They are scheduled to be sentenced in San Diego federal court...
...Thanks. Since Faretta, the number of pro se defenses has multiplied. Some of them have been impressive. In Plymouth, Mass., a do-it-yourself defendant, Anthony Jackson, a grade-school dropout charged with the murder of a young woman cab driver, successfully delayed his trial proceedings by arguing 45 pretrial motions himself. The judge pressured Jackson into accepting a licensed attorney for the main trial, and when the jury acquitted him two weeks ago, Jackson petulantly refused to thank the lawyer. Still another self-defender was Clifford Irving, author of the bogus Howard Hughes biography. He responded...
...Columbia tried to make things right, if not logical, with the author of How to Read a Book by awarding him its Graduate Faculties Alumni Award for Excellence. Adler accepted benignly, noting later that his difficulties with the college had provided him with a chapter title for his autobiography: "Dropout." He also revealed that he finally learned to swim-when someone told him that it was as easy as humming...