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...Bonnie" is Ulrike Meinhof, 37, a slim, tough-faced divorcee who was once the editor of the leftist monthly magazine Konkret. "Clyde" is Andreas Baader, 28, a personable art-school dropout, Lothario of sorts, and sometime student revolutionary. Accompanied by a fluctuating number of associates (as many as 23 at times), the Baader-Meinhof gang during the past two years has pulled a string of bank robberies and car thefts, and has had shootouts with police in half a dozen cities. The toll so far: one policeman killed and another seriously injured, two gang members killed...
Though himself a college dropout, he is president of Oral Roberts University, a $30 million. 500-acre campus in Tulsa, Okla., which in only six years of existence has won full accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Though for two decades he conducted his crusades as a minister of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, Roberts was accepted as a United Methodist minister in 1968. This week he will be one of the guest speakers at a Catskill Mountain retreat for Methodist clergymen from New York...
...grade-school dropout who earned more than $173,000 last year, Whittingham figures to have another banner year in 1972. He still has Cougar II, one of the top money winners last year ($416,022), as well as such top-rated horses as Daryl's Joy and Turkish Trousers. Though his horses have won more than $12 million over the years, Whittingham says: "I haven't got any special tricks. I just know my horses and treat them as individuals...
Sentenced to death for the brutal murder of a 15 year-old New Jersey girl, the cocky young high school dropout stubbornly refused to admit any guilt. During 14 years on death row, a record in U.S. penal history, he argued his innocence in court appeals and a remarkably well-written book (Brief Against Death). Last week Edgar Smith, now 37, became a free man. His release did not mean that he had been pardoned or acquitted; instead, he made a carefully rehearsed public confession. The extraordinary exercise in plea bargaining not only obscured the truth but also soured...
Happily, Valerie Eliot has written a clear and humane introduction, which pieces together the poet's life during the period, roughly 1916 to 1922, when The Waste Land was in preparation. What emerges is a portrait of the artist as the most scrupulous, harried and genteel academic dropout of the half-century. After studies at Harvard, the Sorbonne and Oxford. Eliot gave up his Ph.D. degree (as Pound had before him) to write poetry. He married a neurotic woman who eventually went mad. To support them, he lectured, edited, wrote occasional literary pieces, taught at the High Wycombe Grammar...