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Steep. The next day a man telephoned Don Carlo's home and said that Manny had been kidnaped and was being held for a $350,000 ransom. Following instructions, Gambino sent his men racing off to a phone booth in New Jersey, but they somehow lost their way and arrived too late to receive another message. Four days later the deal was renegotiated; Don Carlo claimed that $350,000 was steep and wondered if the kidnapers would be satisfied with $60,000. After a day of haggling, the abductors agreed. The FBI, which had got wind of the goings...
...Vietnam, was walking through Holyoke Center a few weeks ago and ran into a crowd of Harvard students protesting the University's Gulf investment, chanting to the effect that "we must hold up the blood-stained banner 'til we die." She asked, "If I were to set up a booth offering a chance to enlist in the Angolese rebel army, how many do you suppose would sign up?" This is somewhat irrelevant, as is black Professor Martin Kilson's insistence that black students should give up their scholarships before demanding action from Harvard which might threaten its investment return. Nevertheless...
...been enhanced by television. The political leader is always on view, with few chances for escape. Thus George Wallace makes a speech behind a bulletproof lectern-and then darts out to shake hands with a crowd that includes his would-be assassin, who seeks the same limelight. John Wilkes Booth, a professional actor, plotted to murder Abraham Lincoln in a theater where he would have a captive audience. Contemporary assassins are supplied with a much larger stage by television. They know that their deed, or its immediate aftermath, will be witnessed by millions of horror-struck citizens...
...month, year round, some 35,000 customers queue up outside the Bowl to pay the 50? that admits them to a day of offbeat shopping. Inside the stadium several hundred hawkers display their merchandise along the 50-ft.-wide walkway that circles the stadium. They have each rented booth space at $5, $10 or $15 (depending on location) to sell clothes, curios, antiques and all kinds of gadgets and recyclable junk. For the nostalgia-oriented, who form a big segment of buyers, there are WPA buttons for a dollar, rolls of World War II barbed wire for $35 and 1920s...
...soon became apparent to the G.O.P. that the cost of installing the temporary facilities for delegates and the press would run close to $ 1,000,000. On top of that, Graham began to insist that the G.O.P. invest heavily in permanent structures such as a new ticket booth, two permanent television anchor booths and a closed-circuit television-monitor system. That would have brought the total cost of the convention to around $1.5 million. Richard L. Herman, vice chairman of the party's committee on arrangements, finally blew up. Graham refused to budge. As he blandly explained last week...