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...breakers (police) and can find his way to black-and-white parties in Greenwich Village pads. He knows every malodorous inch of the eight-block Harlem area that is the Playboys' turf, and he has earned the nickname "King" by taking over the leadership of the gang from Raven, who had fatally misjudged a leap from one tenement rooftop to another...
...crawling his way around Manhattan one evening last May, a burly Bronx meter reader named Steve Callinan dropped into a bistro and spotted Raven Novie, 21, a statuesque blonde receptionist who was dining with her equally fetching cousin. "Wannadrink, girls?" Callinan pressed. When they rebuffed him, Raven said, he spewed assorted four-letter words; the manager ordered him away, and he retreated to the bar. As the girls were leaving, Raven claimed, Callinan threatened her with fists as well as words...
Apparently frightened, Raven took out a pen-shaped tear-gas gun, squirted Callinan in the left eye and ran-hotly pursued by two off-duty Brooklyn policemen who were also drinking at the bar. Not only was she unaware that her pursuers were cops, she said, but they beat her up on the street-a story coldly denied by the police on the stand, warmly supported by her cousin in the press. Whatever the facts in the matter, Raven was charged with third-degree assault, violation of New York's stiff Sullivan weapons law, and unlawful possession...
Many lawyers would argue that Raven herself had a good assault case against Callinan, whether or not he touched her. But by a vote of 2 to 1, a three-judge city criminal court without a jury convicted her on all charges. Last week she received a suspended sentence, on grounds of her "generally favorable" probation report and the assumption that she "acted in panic." But the prosecution had unquestionably made its point. "A lot of people didn't know tear-gas guns are illegal," explained Prosecutor Jeffrey Atlas. "Well, they know now." Unfortunately for Raven Novie, the lesson...
...Balas, the current world record holder in the ladies' high jump, went to Budapest-but only as a spectator, wearing an Ace bandage. She was, according to Rumanian track officials, suffering from a "calcified right tendon," and might never be able to compete again. Maria Vittoria Trio, a raven-haired Italian broad jumper, refused to submit to a physical on religious grounds. "I have been raised a Catholic," she said, "and I refuse to undress in front of unknown people...