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...Election Night that he might like to move to Australia to try again for public office. In fact he has bought 170 wooded acres near town to build his family a new house far from the gawking tourists who "drive you slap-assed crazy." Nor will he be a stranger to public service. Right after losing to Blanton. he was named to a six-year, $1,800-per-annum term as tax assessor for Sumter County. Good thing that, as he says, he has never felt jealous of Jimmy...
...Americans were eventually eliminated except Paul Hunter and Freddy Wright. It was left up to Darwin to defeat Hunter in the fifth round and Wright in the sixth. The night after knocking out Wright, Darwin was accosted on the street by a stranger who had been staring at him from a distance. The stranger in an emotion-choked voice thundered, "Sir, I would like to thank you for the way in which you saved your country...
...very fact that so many people are eager to talk about their innermost feelings with a total stranger for the purpose of publication points up one of society's shortcomings: no one listens. Denes is at least willing to do this much...
When they go out-if they go out -they listen anxiously for the sound of footsteps hurrying near, and they eye every approaching stranger with suspicion. As they walk, some may clutch a police whistle in their hands. More often, especially after the sun sets, they stay at home, their world reduced to the confines of apartments that they turn into fortresses with locks and bars on every window and door. They are the elderly who live in the slums of the nation's major cities. Many are poor. White or black, they share a common fear-that they...
...account, Philip Agee is no stranger to dirty tricks. The author of a 1975 book about the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine Latin American activities, ex-agent Agee freely admitted his own role in bugging a foreign embassy and planting phony incriminating evidence on a leftist politician who was in disfavor with the CIA. Last week Agee, a resident of Britain for the past four years, claimed that he personally was the target of spookdom's latest dirty trick. Scotland Yard detectives knocked on the door of his Cambridge home and served him with a deportation letter...