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Where is that idealism now? In recent years we have been told not to worry about others but to secure ourselves, feather our own caps in whatever way we can. True, some politicians talk about sacrifice-but what we call sacrifice are efforts to win a war or beat inflation. Where are the sacrifices we must make so that there can be some justice in the lives of those who have never known...
...immigrant Sicilian feather importer, Swaggi began his career at age twelve selling fake "Parker" pens. Soon Eighth-Grader Vincent was pulling in "seventy or eighty bucks a week ... twice as much as my teachers." Flushed with the thrill of "the score," he passed up high school to study the practical wisdom of hustlers like "Willie the Wop," "Cigar Face Joe" and "Abe the Louse." During the Depression, Swaggi boasts he saved $10,000 in one year. By age 23 he had hustled his way through more than a decade of crime in four cities under two aliases...
...deaden their senses (great with quaaludes). Or it tried to take people into an abstract other-world, a zillion steps past mere escape. Or it turned the great strength of the music--its implicit threat to the existing order--into a parody of itself, dressing up in paint and feather boas...
...There's something obscene about dressing up and inviting a lot of rich people to raise money for the Indians." Paparazzo Ron Galella, who was felled last year by Brando in a street scuffle, had got dressed up too; he appeared in a football helmet garnished with a feather. The organizers hoped to raise $15,000 but, as one lonely Yakima surveying the shambles said, "There are many bad spirits here." ∎ With a cobra's speed, a jaguar's ferocity and the imagination of a Lenny Bruce, General Idi Amin Dado ("Big Daddy"), President of Uganda...
State legislators have been known to show zealous interest in their own welfare, and members of California's legislature can feather their nests with the best of them. In 1965 and 1970, the law makers enacted bills giving any legislator from a reapportioned district who was defeated - or simply decided to quit - a full retirement pension. There were no age restrictions: boy wonder and withered sage alike would be eligible...