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...school elections came, one by one, DiCara kept entering and won most of the time. He was mastering his style of politics. "You couldn't get away from him; he was everywhere," one schoolmate asserted. "You could never walk by him without getting a big rap about how you were and all that bullishit...
Nixon praised Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who is resigning as his adviser on urban affairs to return to his post as professor of Education here, saying that criticism of Moynihan's secret memo proposing a policy of "benign neglect" toward the problems of blacks in America was "a bad rap...
...author of that statement is not a spiritual brother to H. Rap Brown ("Violence is as American as cherry pie"). Rather, he is a former FBI agent named William G. Barry, chief of Smith & Wesson Security Services, a year-old firm that advises bankers on how to frustrate the robbers. Barry argues that knocking over banks has always been a particularly popular crime in the U.S., the home of such anti-heroes as the James brothers, John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde. Bank robberies in 1969 were running almost twice as high as four years before, and burglaries were also...
...exactly an intimate rap session, as nearly 600 seamen, submariners and officers jammed a base theater at Pearl Harbor last week. But the pert WAVE spoke up boldly on behalf of two of her service friends with an unusual problem: "She works a day shift while her husband is on the night shift. Can't something be done?" The officer directed her to leave their names, and since that officer was none other than Admiral Elmo ("Bud") Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations and the U.S. Navy's uniformed boss, the pair will soon be on more compatible assignments...
There are no Saturday morning inspections at Carson, no reveille or retreat formations. At the Inscape Coffee House, black light illuminates slogans proclaiming that "Life is a Big Happening," and a peace symbol adorns a beam. Here officers drop in to rap with the troops. "At coffeehouses off base they scream about the Establishment," notes one colonel. "Here they can scream at the Establishment." Five enlisted men's clubs serve up beer, whisky and go-go girls. In an experiment, the G.I.s have fashioned their quarters into semiprivate cubicles, brightening them with colorful rugs, curtains, posters and pinups...