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...Society. At 16, after forging postal money orders, he was sent to a series of mainland U.S. prisons, where he alternated between fighting and arguing. "I've always been militant. I was brought up on the teachings of Marcus Garvey." Shipped to a federal prison in Tallahassee, Fla. ("Wow, did I.run into some racism down there!"), he began to organize the inmates. The result was a "miniriot" and a transfer to Lewisburg, Pa. "I've got to praise the system there," he says. "I was able to get a lot of reading done." Blyden's discoveries included...
...should more properly be titled My Times than Modern Times, for it's nothing less than a disguised autobiography of Chaplin the slumdweller child from London who finds himself confronted with the appalling luxury of America. The music hall entertainer, who arrived along with a troupe called the "Wow-Wows," found himself surrounded with fame and riches, but remained a loner. Chaplin poetically objectifies his situation in the image of a tramp night-watchman in a department store. All the luxuries which normally belong to the public, are his for one evening. He can dress his gamine in the finest...
...eats health foods ("Our whole society is built around the dining table," she complains over alfalfa sprouts and carrot juice) and spends a lot of time watching the tide-and her psyche. Starting with her breakthrough in B. & C. & T. & A., she recalls, "people kept saying, 'Wow! You're a star. You must really be happy,' and I kept asking myself, 'If it's so great, why doesn't it feel any better?'" She sought the answer at Esalen, the California group-therapy center shown in B. & C. & T. & A., where, after some...
Seven years ago Robert Woolf was an energetic young criminal lawyer working out of a cubbyhole office in Boston. Eager for business, he agreed to help Red Sox Pitcher Earl Wilson negotiate his baseball contract. A few fast deals later and Woolf suddenly realized: "Oh wow, this is an area that's been virtually untapped." Tapping away like a trip hammer ever since, he has become the most successful of the new and growing breed of sport lawyer-managers. He now has a stable of 200 pro basketball, baseball, football and hockey athletes. "I have to pinch myself...
Boyd finally was led to a point outside Washington (he will not say where). There he found some 1,000 pages of the Pentagon report. The Knight package consisted of an orderly presentation with occasional marginal notes like "Wow!" inked beside some Pentagon statements. On most pages, a slip of paper had been placed over the secrecy classification when the photocopy was made, blanking it out. But on a dozen pages Knight newsmen found the words TOP SECRET?SENSITIVE. At the Boston Globe, the pickup arrangements sounded so melodramatic that editors suspected a hoax. But they went along and received...