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...wary men walked up to the green Cadillac: Kenneth Kan-kit Huie, 60, self-styled "unofficial mayor of Chinatown," and Tim Lok, 35, known to federal agents as "the General" for his ramrod-stiff posture. The four men?two undercover narcotics agents, and the two "connections" whom they had been trying to nail for four months?wasted no time. The agents opened the trunk of the Cadillac and showed the Chinese the contents of an olive-drab attaché case inside: $200,000 in $50 and $100 bills. Then the General led one of the agents off on a meandering excursion...
...mild as the Republican reform measures are compared with those put through by the Democrats, they may face a stiff fight. Conservatives and party regulars view the proposed reforms as a thinly disguised stop-Agnew-in-'76 movement, figuring that most of the new delegates brought in under any reform schemes are not likely to be Agnewites. So far the White House indicates that it will not take sides but let the convention thresh out a response. If nothing else, the battles should be good theater in a script otherwise in search of surprise...
...ever-increasing number of waterfront suburbs are trying to keep outsiders from their beaches by making them pay stiff fees. The New Jersey Supreme Court took a stand against that trend by ruling that Avon-by-the-Sea must stop charging nonresidents a $2.50 beach-use fee when residents pay only $1.25 a day. Writing the majority decision, Justice Frederick W. Hall said: "The public trust doctrine dictates that the beach and the ocean waters must be open to all on equal terms...
...Germany. Lehmbruck was an excellent generalizer but an undistinguished portraitist. He seldom made an individual's face. The earliest known Lehmbruck, a bust of himself done in 1898 at the age of 17, is an exception to this. But it is, as one might expect, a rudimentary effort, stiff and mute. Fifteen years later, when he made his Head of an Old Woman, the image succeeded less as a portrait than as a meditation on time: the plaster face is weathered like an old root, its forms blurred under the delicate accumulated fingermarks...
When they first appeared in the U.S. almost a decade ago, no-snow slopes covered with slippery plastic were hailed as a ski buffs salvation during the long, hot summer. But most schussers were quickly turned off. The stiff, molded bristles that were supposed to substitute for snow ruined their skis, and falling on the stuff felt something like falling on a rake...