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...prosecutor hardly helped his case by talking of "black boys" and asking one of Johnson's cousins whether she had ever slept with him. After some of the questioning, Judge Colombo wrote on his note pad, "I cannot believe my ears." A villain to many liberals for having once sentenced a marijuana defendant to 9½ years, Judge Colombo was nonetheless scrupulously fair to the defense. "I used to work on the line in an auto plant during the summers," he recalls. "That's a lot of what persuaded me to go to law school. I hated...
...duty time with coworkers, would not enter the "us and them" clannishness that leads many police to view all non-cops with some distrust. He invested eight years getting a B.A. in sociology at City College of New York night school and moved to a Greenwich Village bachelor pad with a distinctly hippie tone and a menagerie of pets, including a sheepdog. After he became a plainclothesman he sprouted a beard. His fellow cops kidded him about his disguise, and Serpico smiled along with them. But he began to wonder: "Maybe it isn't a disguise; maybe...
...last year proved to be a debacle for Bernstein-he was booed on the podium, picketed by the Jewish Defense League, editorially scolded by the New York Times, and flooded with hate-mail. Nothing daunted, however, the persistent Bernsteins last week gave another political party in their Park Avenue pad. This time, it was Catholic Chic: 125 guests (including Producer-Director Harold Prince, Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim and Cartoonist-Playwright Jules Feiffer) raised some $35,000 to help defend Father Philip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth McAlister, and the other six antiwarriors accused of plotting to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger and blow...
Cosmodromes on the barren steppes of Kazakhstan trembled with the thunder of departing rockets last week. An unmanned space vehicle named Salyut (Salute) roared off its launch pad and was sent into a near-earth orbit. It was followed four days later by a three-man crew in Soyuz (Union) 10. As many as three additional Soyuz ships were reported poised to join the others in orbit. Ten years after Yuri Gagarin's pioneering flight, the Soviet Union had seemingly begun its most ambitious venture into space: a long-expected attempt to assemble a manned station hi earth orbit...
Gloria Random does not need puzzles to approach the subject. The 17-year-old fugitive love child of James Leo (Midnight Cowboy) Herlihy's new novel finds that incest is purely and simply a bummer. Like her friends down at the crash pad, she handles problems with a jarring forthrightness...