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...bicycles. In the cities, life for most is not so easy. The monthly wage of an average white-collar worker would barely buy a round of drinks in the Hotel Indonesia bar. To make ends meet, city dwellers have invented a sort of guerrilla economy. Almost everyone has a racket...
...barrage of abuse against Hussein. The King hit back by branding Shukairy, whose P.L.O. ranks are equipped with Soviet weapons, "a tool of international Communism." Shukairy became personal. He accused the Jordan royal family of corruption, claimed that Hussein's brother Prince Mohammed operated an arms-import racket that provided Israelis with weapons. Shukairy's agents began whispering the word traitor against Hussein in Jordan's refugee camps. To a refugee population obsessed with a return to Palestine, such charges go over dangerously well...
...then on April 18 a banner headline in the CRIMSON announced the start of the campaign to abolish that "organized vice racket," the tutoring schools. It seemed that between two-thirds and three-quarters of all undergraduates used the course notes obligingly sold by the "cram parlors" rather than going to the bother of taking their own. Further, the CRIMSON revealed that some of the schools had tried to bribe University officials in order to get class lists and other information...
Lowell House reaffirmed its superiority in the racket sports by adding the tennis championship to the Prentice Squash Cup it won this fall...
...never known in Michigan. He wore blue or shiny grey zoot suits, burned his long red hair straight by a process called "conking", peddled reefers and dope, and slept with a white woman. Later in Harlem his reputation as a hustler grew. He played and then worked the numbers racket, pimped for male and female prostitutes, sold and took dope in increasing amounts. Back in Cambridge, he organized and led a gang of burglars who worked out of an apartment in Harvard Square until he was caught and sentenced to ten years in the Charlestown State Prison...