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These men drove Ben Barka to the villa in Fontenay-le-Vicomte, which was owned by Georges ("Jo") Boucheseiche, a small-time hood and bordello operator who also worked for the SDECE. About 30 men guarded the villa where Ben Barka was imprisoned...
...HALL last Wednesday Bruce Springsteen also proved he knows how to put on a show--playing his music and acting it out well. Springsteen's performances are an extension of his songs, and as he sings he is totally immersed in that world. On stage he is a teenage hood, but a likable one, a would-be hard guy who doesn't take himself all that seriously. Much of his act is calculated to produce this image. In his neo-greaser outfit--baggy pants, a workshirt with cut-off sleeves, a leather jacket, and a floppy, oversized woolen...
FAVORITE DRINK: The Franklin Fizzie (one part Dewar's Scotch, one part Hood milk, a dash of Quaker oatmeal, a cherry fizzie and a scoop of scrapple...
...Born to Run album is so powerful, and Springsteen's presence so prevalent at the moment, that before the phenomenon has had a chance to settle, a reaction is already setting in. He is being typed as a '50s hood in the James Dean mold, defused for being a hype, put down as a product of the Columbia promo "fog machine," condemned for slicking up and recycling a few old rock-'n'-roll riffs. Even Springsteen remains healthily skeptical. "I don't understand what all the commotion is about," he told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth...
...cleverest thing about this book is the title, suggesting, by reference to Higgin's first work, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, that Richard M. Nixon's mentality was comparable to that of a small-time Mafia hood. Disappointingly, this is as close as Higgins comes to explaining Nixon's peculiar behavior duing the Watergate affair...