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...North Side as they strolled through the area in a special "walk-and-talk" program designed to improve communications between residents and police. Four blacks arrested for those killings were identified for the police by black residents who are fed up with the terrorism. These gangs are "not Robin Hoods, helping the poor," contends one of their earlier but now disenchanted supporters, Holmes ("Daddy-O") Daylie, a local disk jockey. "They are just hoods, robbin...
...Kelly is a Tony Richardson movie about a legendary Australian bandit, a kind of 19th century Robin Hood. In the title role, Mick sticks up banks and shoots a lot of policemen. But he pays for all that fun. As the hangman slips the inevitable noose around his neck, Jagger looks straight into the camera and says: "Such is life...
...Soviet Union, but has now begun his fourth leave of absence to perform U.N. chores in the Middle East. As usual, he uttered not a single word about his plans, hopes or expectations. His only public statement on the Middle East situation was made during his 1967 round-robin travels. Once, on leaving Cairo, he said: "I am optimistic." On arrival in Beirut he at once sought to correct any impression that his Cairo conversations had been encouraging. "I am always optimistic," he said...
...file of the movement, survival in the society they are working to destroy -and the financing of the machinery to effect that destruction-depends upon a curious combination of primitive-tribal Communism, good Samaritanism, soak-the-sucker capitalism, live-on-the-dole socialism and the riding spirit of Robin Hoodism...
Will American radicals be inspired by this example? However earnest their ideological point, the French Robin Hoodlums executed a happening of at least some wit, an anarchistic tribute to gaiety and appetite. In some ways, the expedition savored of Yippie humor, but American radicals, with their self-consciously proletarian styles, seem unlikely to add it to their arsenal of assault. Picture Abbie Hoffman doling out TV dinners and Fresca in Harlem...