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...been difficult and boring trying to analyze the 1969 No-Knock Law during Christmas vacation, while foghorns wailed in the distance. He could hear the foghorns because he lived on the Rhode Island coast, a long way from the 1969 No-Knock...
...raiders were not roaming gangsters; they were federal narcotics agents on the hunt for illicit drugs. Since 1970, the narcs, as they are known, have been operating under the "no-knock" provisions of a law intended to allow them to burst into a dwelling without warning so that their quarry will not have time to dispose of any drugs. But in a number of incidents across the country, including those in Illinois, the agents have been accused of conducting unauthorized or overzealous assaults...
...Stanford University, a fraternity man entertaining a coed in his room responded to a knock at the door and was confronted by seven nude males, each carrying a golf bag. "May we play through?" asked one. In Knoxville, Term., vowing that they would not be "outstripped by any state," scores of University of Tennessee students raced nude down Cumberland Avenue, even taking to the roofs to sit atop a second-story billboard and astride an ornamental bull...
Still, it's something of a mystery how DiCara expects to knock off Republican incumbent John F.X. Davoren in November, let alone eliminate a strong field of Democratic contenders. But such mysteries are nothing new to DiCara. Nobody predicted that he would poll the third highest vote total in the city council elections last election day--that is, nobody except DiCara. The ambitious councilor has a deceptive support that is unlike that of any other politician in Boston. His political strength is a lucid memory and a quick recall of the names and faces of almost anyone he has ever...
...class, the class before him and the one after," says one of DiCara's old classmates. "He could walk through the Yard and be bombarded by hellos." DiCara made his Harvard contacts through various means, including parties, classes and selling refrigerators for Harvard Student Agencies. "I would knock on the door of about one sixth of the freshman class, peddling those iceboxes," DiCara says...