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...live in dire poverty, but they have few comforts and no spare cash. Home is in an old building in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx, where Stafford, 43, and his wife Geraldyne, 33, grew up. The Staffords live three flights up in a tiny, four-room apartment. Scatter rugs cover the linoleum floors. There are only two closets, so toys and clothes are piled everywhere. The kitchen is jammed with dishes and drying laundry. In the living room, there is a card table -bought with trading stamps-where the family eats...
...stage someone has just blown a line. Someone covers quickly and they all just keep going, the momentum spins on. No time to stop until the lights dim and the act is over. Afterwards the performers scatter to the corners of the back room, and sit quietly with their various plaints. Senelick comes in talking to the prop girl. He stops to console it worried P??grim. After a minute he disengages, turns to the group, and adjusts his spectacles...
...among the young of the Southern California breeding ground the "right," ideologically and politically, is a fragmented phenomenon, the bits and pieces of which now scatter along a spectrum from fascism to anarchy...
...whole area. As soon as a group of more than 50 people gathered at any street corner the cops gathered to meet them. First three or four motorcycles would arrive. Then the tear gas would be hurled. Then the cycles would sweep down the sidewalk. The object was to scatter the crowd and disperse them. If the kids had stayed together and marched either toward the White House, seven blocks away, or into the nearby ghetto Washington might have gone up in smoke...
...somewhat akin to a laying-on of hands, she has been backing Robert P. Moncreiff, a former Rhodes Scholar and like her, CCA and a Republican. With this vote, Moncreiff seems to have a pretty good chance of election. The old Goldberg vote, on the other hand, will probably scatter; some may go to James W. Caragianes (Ind.) who, like Goldberg, draws a lot of support in Mid-Cambridge; others will flow towards School Committeeman Daniel J. Clinton (Ind.) who, with this new support and an old base of votes from his School Committee races, may make it onto...