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...partner flew to Canada and robbed a bank once a month for seven months (total take: $130,000). Along the way he lived in bank-robber style: a Mercedes-Benz, a private plane, $40-a-day hotel rooms in Miami, a Las Vegas trip with a go-go dancer. Whenever he was caught, he would bring out his insanity defense, get committed to a hospital, then escape. "Psychiatry as a science," he observed, "is the only science in the world that deals with extreme intangibles. I probably know more about psychiatry than your average resident psychiatrist...
...girl, the girl especial, the go-go...
...about the stock market surge of the mid-'60s: spiraling "gogo" mutual funds and other forms of seemingly instant wealth. Now that the party has, to put it mildly, ended, Smith takes an equally knowledgeable and witty look at the market's four-year hangover. Former go-go artists will enjoy Supermoney (already a bestseller) about as much as Napoleon would have liked War and Peace...
...anti-L.B.J. signs at his rallies-forcing them to drop their boards and scratch. Democrat Leo Marshall, seeking a seat on Pennsylvania's New Castle County Council in 1966, was the victim of someone who sent a flatbed truck carrying a black band and black semi-nude go-go girls into a conservative white ethnic neighborhood, noisily urging his election. He lost...
...cause permanent damage to hearing in 10% of the people who might be exposed to it for eight hours a day. The slums, with their high population density and aging, ill-maintained automobiles, are often as noisy. Loudest of all is swinging Rush Street, where night after night the go-go clubs and rock bands blare out music measured at more than 115 decibels, the threshold of pain...