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...that policy, these days the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. is offering a blend of self-abasement and mystification. Last week, A. & P. introduced the public to two men whose white aprons proclaim them to be Price and Pride. Price-hair parted down the middle, wire-rimmed glasses, collar pin-looks like a study in fiscal conservatism; Pride, bow-tied and portly, looks expansive. In print and on TV they humbly admit that the supermarket chain let them get separated ("Pride was forced to take a back seat...
...author of one of America's authentic and enduring cult novels, Gaddis still receives midnight phone calls from devotees attempting to pin down unintended literary allusions. Salingeresque rumors have grown up around this publicity-shy man. According to one, he was so disappointed about The Recognitions that he bought up all the copies and burned them. Another ludicrously casts him as a floorwalker at Bloomingdale...
Through her involvement with PIN, Sara Jane Moore soon became a kind of radical groupie. During the next 18 months, as she wandered through the small, semiclandestine parties, splinter groups and cells that make up "the Movement" in the Bay Area, Moore turned from enchanted novice into an FBI informer and then into a Marxist convert, only to be ostracized as a despised pariah after she confessed her informant role. The atmosphere of conspiracy and danger provided a sense of action and purpose that her life was lacking. "I was really nervous, but I was intrigued by the whole thing...
Moore's abrasiveness soon got her into trouble in the Hearst food-giveaway program. "She has an amazing ability to move right in and drive everybody crazy," recalled Steven Weed, Patty's former fiance, who worked at PIN. Finally, Moore was evicted from PIN. "We marched her out of the office, screaming and crying, with two men holding her arms," recalled another PIN worker...
...then, however, she had already established a connection with the Hearst family. While at PIN, she had struck up a friendship with Wilbert ("Popeye") Jackson, the black ex-convict who had formed the United Prisoners Union, dedicated to advancing prison reform. (He was gunned down in San Francisco on June 8 by unknown assassins.) Popeye, hinting at contacts with the S.L.A., approached Randolph Hearst with an offer to intercede for Patty's release. Sensing an opportunity, Moore managed to become the go-between in the dealings. It was a role that caught the attention of FBI agents, who thought...