Angry Man

Last February Francis E. Vincelli tried to join the regular Army and was rejected: his eyesight was not good enough. With a bad case of the haughties, he hit the redeye, was soon good & drunk. Near his home in New York City's Borough of Queens he passed an optician's show window. That was too much for angry Vincelli; he smashed the window. Last week, having paid for the window, he was up in court on a charge of third-degree burglary. His defense: the Army had accepted him after all. Said the Court: "It...

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