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Raised in a black ghetto in Chicago, he is attending Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa. He worked as a $2.50-an-hour janitor this spring to help pay his way to the convention. On arrival, his visions of "big lights, luxurious seats, girls all over that you could pick up, free drinks, big parties up and down the halls of the hotel" were quickly shattered. He found that "the seats are hard, you can't see and I haven't had any time for even a few beers. There hasn't been a single party, just sleep...
...allegedly shot by a follower-though Arthur Bremer was evidently bird-dogging other candidates with aimless hostility. The list is endless: personal peril now climbs aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, hides in a locked apart ment-or in a suburban shopping center as it did recently when a janitor gunned down a handful of strollers in North Carolina. If the earth is unsafe the air bristles with danger. Skyjackings create such anxiety that last week, when four black men seized a Western Airlines jetliner, it was easy to believe the brief rumor that they were demanding custody of Angela Davis...
...room apartment near Marquette University. He studied photography for nearly two semesters at the Milwaukee Area Technical College, briefly tried to go into business making large campaign-type buttons with various catch phrases. He worked half-days as a busboy at the exclusive Milwaukee Athletic Club and as a janitor at the Story Elementary School. Cutting himself off from his family, he slammed the door in his mother's face on the two occasions she tried to visit him. "Arthur did it to Wallace on our wedding anniversary," Sylvia Bremer says bitterly, "and he didn't even know...
Visibly moved by the evident decline of a famous family, the embarrassed agent left, and the subsequent tax settlement was sympathetically small. Meantime, the prince retrieved his priceless paintings and handmade clothes from the portiere, or janitor, who had helpfully hidden them when the inspector called...
...were hit. Bruno Carnevale, a "soldier" in the Carlo Gambino family,* was felled by a shotgun blast near his house in Queens Village, and died with $1,400 still in his pocket. A day later Tommy Ernst, a Staten Island mobster, was fatally wounded. A New Jersey janitor named Frank Ferriano was found in a lower Manhattan parking lot with half his head blown off by a shotgun blast. Hours later Richard Grossman, said to be a credit-card swindler working for the Colombo family, was found in the trunk of a car in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn...