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...back again. They want him to help trap the pusher. It is at this point that Born to Win breaks down into arbitrary and rather predictable melodrama. The pusher gets wise to the scheme. He unloads some bad dope on J., but J.'s buddy Billy Dynamite (Jay Fletcher) shoots it first and dies. Scared, J. wants nothing more to do with the cops' scheme, so they bust Farm on a trumped-up charge to force his hand. J.'s choice is excruciatingly simple: blow the whistle on the junkie, who will have him killed, or spend...
Columbia won the contract after competing with the Fletcher School at Tufts and five other universities. "Most schools wouldn't go near it," Russell said. Judd concurred...
...kind of controversy that really upsets Miss America officials, however, is generated by girls who are outspoken about the unabashed commercialism of it all. "It's a form of prostitution," said Amelita Facchiano, who as Miss Winston-Salem was eliminated in the 1970 Miss North Carolina contest. Maria Fletcher, the girl who won that competition in 1961 and went on to be Miss America, was more philosophical: "The sooner you realize you're a product, the better." Dressed, coiffured and paraded up and down, contestants are like dolls for moms and dads. "Miss America," says Author Deford, "represents...
...Class of '73 was 30 black students and that they were committed to finding a black admissions officer. "Her statement ignored our demands completely and was only a restatement of goals which the black students and the Admissions Department had agreed upon way back in May." Diorita C. Fletcher '71. one of the black students negotiating with Radcliffe said. "It was brought to our attention in such a way as to be insulting...
Rorlyn G. Duam of 32 Irving Street. Cambridge; Katherine Fletcher of Dunster House and Seattle, Washington; Joan M. Friedman of Currier House and Manhasset, New York; Ann M. Kinder of Helden Green, Cambridge; Naney Knowlton of Currier House and Darien, Connecticut...