Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nervous and shy, a freckle-faced woman in her 20s walked into the offices and told a typical story to police that TIME Correspondent James Willwerth overheard. Said she: "Well, I was in The Assembly [a Bayside, Queens, dating bar] about a year ago. It was a Friday, you know, and I started to talk to this guy named Eric. He had real burning eyes, you know? He kept staring at me. I asked him why he didn't dance. He said he hated people. He asked me to go out with him, and I finally said I would...
...some parked cars to simulate necking couples; the use of live decoys was considered too dangerous. Vigilante action was spreading. When a false rumor spread that a man seized by police in a car in Brooklyn for carrying two pistols was Son of Sam, angry crowds swarmed out of bar and threatened to attack the gunman. Police sped away with him for his own protection. The bitter yearning for revenge was widespread. A candy-store owner asked, "You know what I'd do with him?' Then answered: "I'd cut both his legs...
...other hand, Art Leon, owner of The Tourist Trap, a Hollywood Boulevard bar with a parquet dance floor, pool tables and pinball machines, accuses the police of hassling him. "On Friday and Saturday the cops come in here and take out all the women and jack them up against the wall for prostitution," says Leon, who packs a .25-cal. automatic pistol. He claims police sit out front and "tell customers not to come in here." Alcoholic Beverage Control agents have filed an "accusation" against The Tourist Trap, listing 39 offenses, a first step in getting its liquor license withdrawn...
...conservative element of the bar remains hardy. Trial lawyers are once more mounting a massive lobbying effort against a federal no-fault auto-insurance bill, and delegates at the Chicago meeting are expected to delay again establishment of guidelines for lawyer specialization. New standards permitting lawyer advertising will be approved, but only under U.S. Supreme Court compulsion. The pervasive attitude is aptly summed up in a resolution on leadership continuity, to be submitted for approval by the A.B.A. House of Delegates, which concludes: "Our proposal will benefit the American Bar Association and therefore the public...
...exposed to unfair treatment by some past reform legislation: the 1967 law that forbade discrimination in the hiring and firing of people under 65 in private industry because of age, thus penalizing people over 65. Pepper has pushed through the House Education and Labor Committee a bill that would bar forced retirement in the private sector until age 70 and eliminate the mandatory retirement at that age that now applies to all federal employees. A Senate subcommittee headed by New Jersey Democrat Harrison A. Williams is writing similar legislation. President Carter says he supports the retire-ment-at-70 cause...