Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lightning Strike. Some papers plan to cut back for the Republican Convention in August because of the lack of suspense. But visions of Chicago in 1968 are still fresh, and many editors feel that more staff may actually be needed for the G.O.P. meeting, which is likely to attract more protesters and carry a higher potential for violence. As a precaution, the Washington Star will have such riot gear as hard hats and gas masks available for its staff at both conventions...
...large increase in the student and transient population in Cambridge has aggravated another problem--crime. Cambridge's densely populated, high turnover areas of young people attract burglars from all over the Boston area. Robbers find the high quality stereos or TVs most young people own easy to make off with in this area where few people know their neighbors. George Powers, planning and research officer for the Cambridge City Police, said that burglaries are much less frequent in both the working class communities of East and North Cambridge and in the wealthy Brattle St. area. "These are stable, family communities...
...your tastes are dictated by the bulge in your wallet, there's a good deal of regular free-cheap music. Regular Sunday afternoon concerts attract crowds to the Cambridge Common. These feature primarily unknown, but often excellent, local jazz and rock bands playing primarily for exposure. It's the kind of total experience afternoon in which the people watching are more important than the music being played. Go to see and be seen...
...Pentagon. Called by an emergency coalition of major national antiwar groups immediately after the mines were sown, the action was seen as an attempt to duplicate the now-legendary 1967 march on the mammoth military headquarters. Even in the days immediately preceding the action, its organizers expected to attract between 3000 and 5000 people. But as the President flew off to Moscow, the action lost much of its relevance. Only about 1000 people showed up as the march timetables quarreled divisively. After sparing for several hours with riot-equipped police in front of the building, the marchers surged toward...
These proposals ignored the reality -that relatively few lawyers go into private criminal practice, and that the modest fees paid for the defense of indigents are not likely to attract many newcomers. States like New York, one of 19 that already provide lawyers for most misdemeanor defendants, have had to expand their public defender services. One approach that may now spread is the practice of the Washington, D.C., bar, which last year adopted a rule calling on every member under 60 and not a Government employee to take his turn representing indigent defendants. The lawyers get hourly fees...