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Such Talk Can Ruin. All this would seem to make Bill Haddad a likely Democratic reform candidate in the June 2 primary against Congressman Leonard Farbstein, 61, a Tammany type who is seeking a fifth term in Manhattan's meandering 19th Congressional District. But, of all things, Haddad did not count on getting hurt by the district's Jewish vote...
...Israel?"). Even worse, said Haddad, Farbstein was going about telling folks that Haddad was born an Egyptian, that he got married in the Protestant Episcopal Church and thus was a meshumad (an apostate from Judaism). In the 19th District, where 50% of the voters are Jews, such talk can ruin a politician...
...Guardsmen, bayonets fixed on their empty rifles, blocked the marchers' way. "Stop this and take them back!" Brigadier General George Gelston, commander of the Guard unit, yelled through a bullhorn to Gloria Richardson. The Wallace meeting, he told them, "is a complete flop. Don't ruin your chances by going over there. It's only half full." A bottle arced out of the darkness and smashed on Gelston's Jeep. Rocks were thrown at the Guardsmen, striking some. At length, Gloria persuaded the grumbling Negroes to retreat...
...idea was to ruin the opening of the New York World's Fair by stalling cars on the heavily trafficked highways and bridges leading to the Flushing Meadows site. It had a certain demonic appeal - New York is, after all, a city where a single flat tire can ordinarily cause a miles-long jam-up of horn-pounding, curse-shouting motorists...
...sure he will be implicated and afraid his sheep will die if he is sent to jail, heads for the hills and runs his flock far back among the granite desolations. The police come after him with tommy guns, and after a forced march the sheep collapse and die. Ruined, the shepherd bitterly determines to ruin others. In the movie's savage final scene he comes down like a hungry wolf on a fold and steals an entire flock from a man as poor as he. "Now it's your problem!" he snarls cruelly as he runs away...