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Kennedy: I thought Baron was a citizen who was reporting information and evidence in connection with illegal activities. Let me say I am shocked to hear that. I think there have been a lot of loyal people that provided information to the U.S. Government in connection with Communist activities, underworld activities, narcotics activities, at great risk to their own lives...
Powell claimed that he was a victim of New York's "lily-white bench and underworld-controlled judges." Cops and crooks were in cahoots to prevent him from cleaning up Harlem's corruption. Prize example: Arthur Powers, a gambler, was shot to death last Oct. 20; the killers, Terry Lindsay, "Skippy" Martin and "Hank" Hawkins, were known, but "have been sheltered by the police." Moreover, Esther James, the 68-year-old domestic whom Powell had already libeled, was the "finger woman" for the murder...
What I said was that"...given the milieu the author selected there is ample justification to use a slang...of which obscenities form an important part. The world he presents is an underworld, a subculture alienated from and contemptuous of the norms, values and standards of society at large. People who belong to it...are engaged in flaunting these standards which can be achieved most easily and symbolically by the use of words generally tabooed...
Public opinion naturally blamed the Marseille underworld, but the culprit was actually Daniele Maurel, 21, an about-to-be-fired secretary in the ministry who only wanted to help her brother and her boy friend's friend's brother. Once she gave away the answers to her friends, they spread all over the south of France, causing the biggest education scandal in many decades...
...more movies, but of the very stuff that dreams are made of. And as long as Bond is flinging electric lights into bathtubs containing villains about to plug him with his own Smith & Wesson, as long as he's kneeing Chigro henchmen in the groin, as he's humiliating underworld moguls by day and shagging their molls at night, how ever can we deny him an occasional nip of Chatesuneuf du Pape '55? Bob J. K. MaeCarran...