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...agent posing as a street hot-dog vendor in a Mafia neighborhood in New York City discovered which public telephone was being used by gangsters to call sources in Sicily about heroin shipments. The phone was quickly tapped, and the evidence it provided has been used in the ongoing "pizza connection" heroin trial against U.S. and Sicilian mobsters...
Photojournalists tend to stay aloof from talk about camera aesthetics. Something about dodging gunfire in Beirut seems to discourage ruminations on style -- understandably enough. More to the point, no one who catalogs bloodshed and catastrophe wants to be thought of as one more vendor to the senses. Some news photographers spend half their lives chasing war, so who can blame them if, when they hear the word art, they make for the door...
...passerby, skeptical of those glowing liquid bands being sold last night outside The Stadium, asked if they might be harmful--cause cancer or something. But the street vendor defended his product. "They're okay," he said, "I'll drink one if you want...
Pendleton should know, his critics reply. In 1977, Pendleton and two white business partners set up an industrial supply firm in San Diego that unsuccessfully sought status as a minority vendor. "He is the last person in the world to talk about front companies," said Democratic Congressman Parren Mitchell of Baltimore, author of one federal set-aside program. Pendleton rejects the charge that the firm was a shell operation...
...food is standard ballpark fare: hotdogs, popcorn, Coca-Cola and, especially, beer. The beer in Sarasota may be no better than beer anywhere else, but it is served in a unique fashion--by an operatic vendor. "Be the first to quench your thirst!" sings the salesman. "C'mon, you can strike out," he serenades the Red Sox. No one can recall the last singing vendor at Fenway...