Word: asphaltic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risen only 21.8%. On a per capita basis, Cincinnati last year had 46.2% less larceny and 61.4% less robbery than the average of major U.S. cities; this year's figures, still being compiled, run much the same. Juvenile delinquency last year climbed 9% in the asphalt jungles across the U.S., but Cincinnati's rate actually decreased by 1.4%. With impressive unanimity, the citizens of Cincinnati credit this record to Chief Schrotel...
Tiger by the Tail. Born in a Manhattan tenement district and raised in Queens, Ford burst upon the Yankees in the middle of the 1950 season, a brash 21-year-old with strawberry-blond hair, flashing blue eyes and an asphalt-seasoned sense of humor. He had tried out four years earlier as a first baseman and, after being told that he was too scrawny, turned to pitching in a tough sandlot club until a record of more than 20 wins earned him a $7,000 bonus to play Class C ball for the Yankees. As a rookie...
Died. Kenneth Flexner Fearing, 59, minor Kipling of the asphalt jungle, a Chicago corporation lawyer's son who became a proletarian poet during the Depression, a pseudonymous pulp-primer and novelist of such high-voltage thrillers as The Big Clock; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Young Savages. Savage gang warfare in the tenement-glutted asphalt jungle, in which the street punks fare far better than the plot-laden squares...
...Young Savages. Savage gang warfare in the tenement-glutted asphalt jungle, in which the street punks fare far better than the plot-laden squares...