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...political talk in Baltimore was not of the presidential campaign, but the whimsical fate of Mayor William Schaeffer, who stuck his arm out of his car window-and had someone snatch off his $42 wristwatch. Nixon bumper stickers were appearing in Nebraska, but they were vastly outnumbered by bright red NEBRASKA NUMBER ONE signs plugging the university's football team. The big debate in San Francisco was over the attempts of a school dietician to ban graham crackers for milk breaks on the grounds that they stick to tots' teeth and cause cavities...
...that the Friendsville Foxes have always managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Back around World War II, when the Quaker academy was the only high school in Friendsville, its basketball team was a force to be reckoned with in Blount County. Then a public school was opened next door, and enrollment plummeted. In a town with a population of 650, the academy now has only 63 students, most of them boarders but none of them, obviously, notable for their skill at basketball...
...about their personal lives a cardinal credo. One devout follower of the Garbo tenet is Flip Wilson, the subject of this week's cover story. When he first approached the comedian, Roland Flamini, our West Coast show business correspondent, "wondered if I'd even be able to snatch some conversation in the men's room." But Wilson slowly opened up to Flamini, particularly after the two were mobbed by a bunch of elderly women fans outside NBC's studios in Burbank. "Sharing an experience like that," says Flamini, "has got to develop a bond between...
Insurance Windfall. Jackie and Mickey acquire the "merchandise," and Oscar disposes of it. On an average night, Mickey and Jackie steal two or three cars off the streets of New York. On a good night they may snatch half a dozen. Oscar prefers to deal in expensive foreign cars, he says, because they are easier to sell; Porsches are particularly sought after by Oscar's kind of client. "Besides," he adds, "anyone who can afford to buy a $9,000 car doesn't need it in the first place. He can afford to take taxis to work...