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Much of the information leading to the arrests came from Kevin Bonner, an intrepid FBI agent who went undercover for more than two years, infiltrating the motorcycle gang and crisscrossing the country to do drug deals with different Hell's Angels chapters. Bonner and an unnamed informant who traveled with...
SENTENCED. Dennis Dale ("Denny") McLain, 41, Detroit Tigers pitching star from 1963 to 1970, whose 31-6 record in 1968 makes him the last pitcher in the major leagues to post a 30-win season; to 23 years in prison, including three concurrent eight-year terms for racketeering, extortion and...
Moreover, any divestment action coming purely as a concession would lack moral conviction. It would mortgage Columbia's intellectual credibility, and it would remove the symbolism of divestment from a moral plane altogether. The proponents of divestment must win their struggle through rational persuasion, not extortion. Otherwise, the most they...
With his free time, her pitching husband, the only 30-game winner since Dizzy Dean in 1934, made a little book. During the 1970 season in Detroit, when McLain was the two-time Cy Young Award winner, he brought much hilarity to the sporting scene by confessing to having bankrolled...
It is doubtful that any other landlord in Cambridge could have afforded to badger the Rent Control Board so persistently and for so long. One member of the board, who, ironically, supports landlord's rights, went so far as to label Harvard's pressure--legal and otherwise--as "a form...