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Besides lecturing bankers, the ex-cons have been telling Southern California grocers how their stores strike the professional eye. Their initial advice: Don't be too nice to customers. The former thieves were appalled to learn that store owners would willingly tell a stranger what day they had their biggest sales. Other tips: Don't stack large packages like charcoal briquettes in the front window so that passing police cannot see what is going on inside; induce a bit of paranoia with large signs intimating that customers are being watched...
...stranger to U.S. courtrooms. Video tapes of drivers arrested for drunkenness are now regularly used in a number of states, including Wisconsin, Iowa and Colorado. Illinois' Cook County will start the same kind of program this week. In Michigan, seven trials were recently taped live for possible use by appeals judges as a supplement to the written record. But in Ohio, Judge James McCrystal felt that the time had come to prerecord all the testimony for a trial. Attorneys for both sides agreed...
...commune somewhere." Hippie began to dress in a black cape, wearing a Mephistophiles beard and an upside-down crucifix, cultivating a rap of strange mumbo-jumbo, anywhere from the teachings of the English satanist Aleister Crowley to the fascist meanderings of Robert Heinlein's science fiction masterpiece, Stranger in a Strange Land. Hippie became a laboratory rat for Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest, for out on the street, the rule of the land seemed to rest solidly on the idea that the weird shall inherit the earth; it was a case of the survival...
Into Weedy's claustrophobic Chicago apartment comes a mysterious stranger. Blind Jordan (Moses Gunn), who calls himself "the last of a long line of blind singers." He may be the symbol of a quest, of the black racial unconscious or of the power and primacy of blood. In a mesmerizing second-act curtain scene that builds to a crescendo of religious and erotic frenzy, Blind lordan becomes Alberta's lover. In Act III he leaves, and the two women sit in disconsolate resignation, like the heroines of Chekhov. Words of praise cannot do full justice to the play...
...Malraux's works are linked with life." In the political arena, Malraux receives fewer encomiums, least of all from the young. University students today read Man's Fate, Malraux's prizewinning novel, almost as eagerly as they do Sartre's Nausea and Camus' The Stranger. "But he simply isn't actuel, timely today," says Marc Bianciardi, a young French literature teacher. "Malraux was the front-rank leader of our dreams," explains Pierre Rousset, a leader in the May 1968 uprisings in Paris. "But alas! He chose De Gaulle, chose to side with the bourgeois...