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...younger Fidelistas, whose hearts are closer to Peking. The Moscow old guard is clearly getting the worst of it. Between May and December last year, Castro sacked four Cabinet ministers who were aligned with the Soviet-oriented wing of the party. Last week he bumped the most important old-timer yet: Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, 51, director of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA) and top go-between for Havana and Moscow...
...Theirs." Many another Texan apparently shares Brown's concern. "People no longer identify with the law," says Sociologist O. Z. White of San Antonio's Trinity University. "The old-timer felt that every trial was his-he was the people. Now it is 'their' trial, not 'ours.' " Atlanta's Superior Court Judge Luther Alverson even suggests that declining trial attendance may contribute to rising crime. "I do not think it is good for people to be removed from the realities of what goes on from day to day in our cities...
...Small-Timer. Only on Broadway did he find characters with a cynicism to match his own. They told him where the bodies were buried, and he repaid their trust by miscasting them in solid-citizen roles. Assigned by Hearst to an anti-rackets crusade in 1933, Runyon led off with the charge that the Administration of President Harding was "the most brazen display of racketeering in our times." His story went on to tick off other notable racketeers-"after the bankers come the Wall Streeters"-before arriving at Al Capone, who was charitably described as "a small-timer." Biographer Hoyt...
Lancey Hodges was The Man, the recognized king of the three-river gambling circuit. No nerves at all. "That sonsabitch is cold," an old-timer said of Lancey. "I ain't got much faith in nothin' that will take him. He likes being...