Word: bootblack
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...along, a liberal and enlightened Supreme Court would strike down the practice of punishing drunks merely for being intoxicated in a public place. So the court surprised just about everyone last week when it upheld by a 5-to-4 vote the conviction of Leroy Powell, an Austin, Texas, bootblack who has been found guilty more than 100 times of public drunkenness...
...least a dozen theories are current in New Orleans-practically every bootblack and cabbie seems to have several. One of the favorites is that Fidel Castro, having unearthed a CIA plot to assassinate him, sent four teams of killers to the U.S.-one of them including Oswald-to get Kennedy in retaliation. Another, less incredible, conjecture holds that Shaw and others merely planted the seed of the assassination idea in Oswald; such encouragement would be enough to justify conspiracy charges under Louisiana...
...impose a severe demand upon the nation's productive capacity and give body to the specter of inflation. Keynes feared inflation, and warned that "there is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of a society than to debauch the currency." Once chided for undertipping a bootblack in Algiers, he replied: "I will not be party to debasing the currency...
...Patsy. When he gets a shoeshine, the bootblack lays on a nice thick coat of mushy black polish before happening to notice that the customer is barefoot. When he wants to look well dressed, he pulls his socks down over his sneakers. When somebody shouts in his face, his eyebrows grow six inches in six seconds. When somebody calls him a psycho-ceramic, he figures they mean a crackpot...
...reform. They bring contributions to the Agrarian Reform Institute, everything from pennies to axheads to old barbed wire. "I am in accord with Fidel." says Juan Mora, who owns 17 acres, a thatched hut, a cow and a pig. "I am going to register for more land." Chimes in Bootblack Ruiz Marino Arganza, 16: "Everybody for Fidel...