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...Bronx, a thousand or so people gathered to hear a talk by British Novelist-Scientist C.P. Snow. As they might have suspected, Lord Snow expounded on one of his pet subjects: genetics. "Men are equal in death," said Snow. "They are not born equal." It is nonsense, he continued, to think humans are born as blank sheets of paper to be filled in by parents, teachers and circumstances. After talking, Snow sipped tea, nibbled sandwiches, and allowed that he is very fond of the U.S. "I like the enormous intelligence of the people, the astonishing variety of virtue and skill...
There were 3 starters for the Bronx contest, the first in the 34-year history of the Heptagonals...
...teams of three or more, Ronnie and fellow members of a teenage gang called the Young Mafia worked the west side of Harlem, with occasional forays into The Bronx or even midtown Manhattan. On an average night, they attacked eight victims or "turkeys," taking a total of about $300. Only when the victim resisted was he beaten. "If you hassle me, I get scared," Ronnie explains. One night a record-store owner tried to stop the gang from stealing albums. Ronnie and his friends beat him so badly that he was on the hospital critical list three weeks...
...where a black mayor was elected in 1969, has seen almost no interaction between Italians and blacks. New York's formerly liberal Jewish candidates are now emphasizing their opposition to housing projects and school busing. And many people in the Irish and Italian sections of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, have left the Democratic Party to join the Conservative Party...
...such agent-diplomat is Nick Panella, 39, a graduate of The Bronx, Manhattan's Hunter College, and most of the world's drug trade centers: New York, Rome, Istanbul, Marseille, Montreal and Paris. Dark and compact, Panella describes his appearance as "the stereotype of the Italian wise ass"-a distinct asset in the trade. "Up in East Harlem," he says, "nobody's going to introduce any bright-eyed, 6-ft. Ryan to anybody worth talking to in drugs. But I fit right in. They'll sell to someone who looks like...