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Over the years Sherrill had worked as an electronics technician and radio- store salesman, but he had never held a job for very long. Around the neighborhood he was known as a Peeping Tom. "Everybody hated him," says Neighbor Gerald Cash. "He'd prowl around at night, looking in people's windows." Children taunted him with nicknames like "Crazy Pat," and Sherrill would often chase them in a rage...
...Jones average of 30 industrial stocks suffered its largest single-day decline in history. Only six days after breaking through the 1900 level for the first time ever, the Dow plunged 61.87 points, to 1839, on the week's opening day. On Tuesday the bears were again on the prowl, as the Dow dropped an additional 18.27 points, to 1820.73. For the next two days, the market rallied faintly, then drifted down again to close at 1821.43. Nonetheless, insisted Mason Sexton, president of Harmonic Research, a Wall Street forecasting firm, "the bull market is intact...
Imagine his surprise when he arrives at her room for a more intimate encounter and finds her on the angry prowl, telephone in one hand, cigarette in the other, barking brisk, not to say obscene, instructions to her agent. Why, says Michael, you're two people. "If all I could be is two different people, I'd be out of business," she snaps back...
Matt Murdock (the blind lawyer who uses his secret "radar sense" to prowl the rooftops as DD) became a real character, a pathological vigilante with a conscience. Miller was questioning the superhero, the great convention of the comic book form: the citizen, gifted by fate, who selflessly puts on longjohns to fight evil. At least the villains use their laser-beam eyes for material gain--what do the heroes...
Some of the vigilantes are reportedly off-duty black policemen, and many blacks suspect that these groups are working with government security forces. The critics say that police, who regularly clash with leftist protesters, seldom appear when right-wing vigilantes are on the prowl and are slow to investigate charges against the groups. "There are right-wing elements of our community ready to be used by the authorities to blunt the edge of liberation forces," says Murphy Morobe, chief spokesman for the United Democratic Front, the national umbrella organization for more than 600 antiapartheid groups. "These vigilantes are no different...