Word: kempe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JACK KEMP. President Nixon can find comfort in Buffalo's new Congressman Jack Kemp. Not only is Kemp a staunch backer of the President's policies, he is a football fan too. Kemp left a $50,000-a-year job as quarterback of the Buffalo Bills to run for the House and turned out to be as successful in politics as he had been on the field.* He had help from an old friend of his days on Governor Ronald Reagan's staff, White House Adviser Robert Finch, and from Nixon's director of communications, Herb...
...buddy enlisted a young woman employee of the New York Telephone Co. as their accomplice and pulled off a $23,000 payroll holdup at one of the company's Bronx offices. There was no violence; they used toy pistols for the job. Six weeks later, Kemp was arrested for the first time; the girl, questioned about her sudden big-spending habits, had talked...
...only benefit of the crime, which he now calls "dumb," was that Kemp got a pretrial mental exam at Bellevue Hospital, where he became good friends with Novelist Norman Mailer, who was in for stabbing his wife (she later refused to press charges). Given a sentence of ten to twelve years, Kemp began smuggling short-story manuscripts out of prison for Mailer's comments and corrections. He trained himself partly by rewriting passages of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in his own words. He also learned French and earned a high school equivalency certificate. "Somewhere around...
...suspicious," Kemp recalls. "No one had ever given me anything in life-why now? But what did I have to lose?" He got a job with an antipoverty project in Harlem and attended school at night. Soon he qualified for a $50-a-week stipend and began attending during the day, taking an accelerated 50 credits a year instead of the usual 30. "I was skeptical about the SEEK program lasting," he says. "I don't believe in white altruism, and I thought it would be just another crumb, a token. At the end of every year there...
...Models. "The university never played down to us," Kemp says. "What SEEK has brought is not a lowering of academic standards but a lowering of standards for opportunity, and there is nothing wrong with that. The university is no longer a castle...