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...Merchant in Jeff City It is a misconception to assume that the status a man has in prison depends upon his status or rank as a criminal. It doesn't. The fact that James Earl Ray was a small-time criminal didn't keep him from becoming a "Merchant" [prison term for one who deals in contraband] in Jeff City ... [He] understood prison life, and he knew how to operate with "Big Shots," guards and other prisoners...
...addition to these acts, Carlos is believed to have had a part in the bombing of the Drugstore in Paris and an attack on the French embassy in The Hague, both in September 1974, and the attempted murders of a prominent Jewish merchant in London and a Yugoslav diplomat in Lyon. From various papers found in Carlos' hideouts, police discovered other as yet unhatched plots: a scheme to block the Suez Canal by dynamiting a ship, the kidnap or murder of the Israeli Ambassador to France and the possible assassination of Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Sheik Ahmed...
...period dominated by Ezra Pound's fierce injunction, "Make it new!" he admitted: "I am not an innovator but a rediscoverer of forgotten goods." Many of his works were in one way or another derivative. The Skin of Our Teeth was born of Finnegans Wake. The Merchant of Yonkers (1938) evolved from a 19th century Viennese farce and developed into The Matchmaker (1954) and Hello, Dolly...
...Crimson grapplers quashed the Georgia Tech and the Merchant Marine Academy matmen before bowing to host squad Hofstra in a marathon quadrangular meet on Saturday afternoon at Hofstra...
Against a Merchant Marine Academy squad that hails from Kings Point, Yasunaga and Mulvihill upended their opponents, while Jim Cocoran also cruised to an 8-1 win on the way to a 3-0 sweep of his matches. A healthy Jon Franklin, who had been plagued by two shoulder fractures in two years, shellacked his Kings Point opponent. Lee termed the opposition "a rugged bunch of kids" but the Commanders were erased 28-11 by the Crimson...