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What followed was a combination of pluck, luck and medical skill. When passers-by mistook Piper's pleading moans for the babblings of a wino and ignored him, he pulled the crowbar out himself, made a compress out of his soft worker's hat and summoned the strength to walk 100 ft. to a service station. An hour passed before he reached Fort Worth's St. Joseph's Hospital. There, by luck, a team of abdominal surgeons had just scrubbed up for an operation. Calling in a chest surgeon from nearby All Saints Hospital, they went...
...Mexico. Unfortunately, Mama can't adjust to Sagrado; the people are Mexicans, Indians and Anglos, the streets are full of donkey manure, and there's scarcely anyone to play bridge with. She begins to tap the stock of sherry in the cellar and becomes a befuddled wino. Along with looking after Mama and completing the process of growing up, Josh has some special problems of his own. Change Lopez, the meanest pachuquito in town, threatens to castrate him; an assignation becomes an embarrassing flop; and he can't decide whether he loves the Episcopal rector...
...that pupils and fellow teachers alike make jokes about it. One boy who stayed out playing hookey for a few days returned at length and, with a smile on his face, was able to justify his reason for returning in these words: "I got tired of seeing all the winos on the street. I though I'd come back to school to see and educated wino...
Police later arrested three Negroes: Donald Ramsey, 26, who wears the fez of the Yoruba sect, a Black Nationalist cult, and whose apartment on the fifth floor of the murder building is decorated with Black Power posters; Thomas Dennis, also 26, a pot-smoking wino who hung out on the hippie fringe and proclaimed a code of racial violence; and Fred Wright, 31, assistant janitor in the building who lived in a small room just off the cellar, and who was held on "related" charges of raping and robbing another hippie girl just hours before the slayings. Wright was reputed...
Through an informant, police were kept advised of the League's activities. At 1:45 a.m. Sunday, the informant, a wino and ex-convict, passed the word (and was paid 50? for it): "It's getting ready to blow." Two hours later, 10th Precinct Sergeant Arthur Howison led a raid on the League, arresting 73 Negro customers and the bartender. In the next hour, while squad cars and a paddy wagon ferried the arrested to the police station, a crowd gathered, taunting the fuzz and "jiving" with friends who had been picked up. "Just as we were pulling...