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After he entered Ohio State University in 1970, Chenault began to change. Recently he had come to be regarded as an oddball and a loner who had few friends and fewer dates. He was a junior majoring in education when he dropped out last December and began venting his increasingly eccentric views through a blaring loudspeaker propped in his second-floor window near the campus in Columbus. Until last week, however, no one took seriously his amplified boast that he was "the baddest ______________mother on the block...
...loner, Springsteen's lifestyle is music. "I love traveling and performing, love being on the road. The thing I don't like is the business side." Home is a rented apartment in Bradley Beach, N.J. If the commotion over his music has sometimes flattered, sometimes irritated him, he shows no ill effects. He remembers calling his mother in California to tell her he had signed a big record contract...
...whorehouses--he refused to let that recognition sink him. He never quit: he took his allegations before a series of Lindsay aides and deputy commissioners and finally broke it to The New York Times. Serpico left the police only after he had already faced the dangers of being a loner on the force and a crusader against the ruling order. He offered public testimony against police (while still recovering from gunshot wounds in the head, incurred in a Harlem narcotics raid); he then sought peace in Switzerland...
...Colleen Dewhurst - whom one hardly expects to find in such company-provides an agreeable cameo as a roundheeled cocktail waitress with a taste for cocaine. The Duke remains amiable and unruffled throughout, but it is a bit troubling to see him poaching so obviously on Clint Eastwood's loner-cop territory...
...crunch of politics since then, the President and the Congressman have ceased to be friends, but O'Neill knew him long enough to offer an insight into his personality that he feels may partially explain Watergate. Because he is such a loner, suggests O'Neill, the President does not do enough personal assessing of the men being considered for his staff, taking them on the judgment of others. What is more, says O'Neill, "Nixon is well briefed-but he's briefed the way his people think he wants to be briefed...