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...bones about trying to exploit black distrust of Cubans. Black Radio Announcer Les Brown urged his WEDR listeners to form "a bolt of black thunder" at the polls. He had a taunt for any Cubans who tuned in: "You stole our jobs and you're not going to steal our city." The most dramatic display of raw enmity came when City Commissioner Joe Carollo went on TV to endorse Ferre and abruptly changed his mind, charging a visibly stunned Ferre with running a "racist campaign of hate...
...rest of the world. Signs of the downturn's unusual nature are apparent everywhere. "Recession!" shouts the ad in the Khaleej Times, a daily newspaper in the United Arab Emirates port city of Dubai. "Gold watches at half the actual price!" That is unlikely to mean a steal, however, since the Girard Perregaux timepieces normally cost...
...reads "respects the work of Ghandi ('helping of people')." In this case it was Harvard's Rob Wheeler who benefited from Crowley's charitable instincts. Crowley fumbled with the puck, vainly trying to get it on the blade of his stick long enough for the Crimson left wing to steal it, dive across the UVM crease and tuck it away, giving Harvard a 4-3 victory in its home opener...
...Pauw Colleges in Indiana. Each year the two schools vie for the Monon Bell--donated to the two schools by the Monon Railroad Co. in 1932--the winner holding the bell until the next game. Not surprisingly, many times students from the losing school have tried to steal the bell. The last successful attempt came in the late '60s when a Wabash student disguised himself as a Mexican reporter and secured an interview with De Pauw's president. He apparently went to great lengths, even obtaining press credentials from a Mexican newspaper. During the interview the president made the mistake...
Such heists are common of great rivalries. West Point cadets have frequently managed to steal Navy's mascot goat before the Army-Navy game. Once they even went so far as to take out an ad in The New York Times taunting the Midshipmen. "Hey Navy! Do your know where you 'kid' is today?...The Corps does...