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WHEN RICHARD P. White '74 answered a knock on his Eliot House door at 11 p.m. on January 22 and told the three youths who appeared that he did not know anyone named "John Simmons," they produced a gun and forced their way into the room. After robbing him of $26 in cash and a face mask valued at $10, the assailants bound White's hands and feet, placed a pistol next to his head and fired a shot into the ceiling...
...same argument, of course, was often used months ago to knock down press disclosures-until they were borne out by later evidence...
...ready explanation for the mark's inevitable failures. "You threw that one too high," he may say, thus persuading the mark that he can easily do better if he keeps playing. (One example of an alibi is the six-cat, in which a mark tries to knock a row of canvas cats off a shelf with a baseball-but fails because a mechanical device keeps the cats in place.) According to Dembroski, "Show owners almost always set a limit on the amount out of which any one mark can be beat." Once that limit (perhaps...
...earned the admiration of most top police officials because of his strong support of wiretapping, "no knock" entry in making arrests, and preventive detention of dangerous criminals while awaiting trial, Mitchell should have exposed all those he knew to have helped plot the crime. Instead, he publicly denied any advance knowledge of the affair, ridiculed the notion that the re-election committee had anything to do with it and dismissed reports that he was personally implicated with a brusque: "The stories are getting sillier all the time...
...this novel. A ghostly past of Mel Ott, of Honus Wagner, the Folo Grounds, Kenesaw Mountain Landis -- it haunts this book. To Word Smith, it fled with America's innocence. In the bleachers at Fenway the other night, thinking of this, and badly shaken by the rendition of "Knock Three Times" that had just been piped to us at a deafening level, the kid in front of me with the baseball cap began loudly to taunt the center-fielder with the ageless imputation that he bit the dust. This convinced me that all was well -- until he worked into...