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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Tightens Up Security | 11/3/1971 | See Source »

...Cambridge police spokesman said yesterday that a Harvard student taking pictures near the corner of Harvard and Prescott Streets was attacked Monday night by two assailants and beaten over the head with a blackjack. The assailants attempted to steal the student's camera and fled when the student started to scream for help. The assailants have not been apprehended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Tightens Up Security | 11/3/1971 | See Source »

...like the Vocational Institute at Lancaster where they can learn marketable skills. On the other hand, charges deemed "incorrigible" are sent to the vocational schools where instead of learning carpentry or machine mechanics they hold informal seminars in second-story work or in the most effective employment of the blackjack or bike chain. In effect, the "promising cases" for showing their capacity for cooperation with the Authority are being exploited by it. Their work in the forestry camps is productive in terms of the needs of the state to control and harness California's environment, but the work in terms...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: West to Crime and Punishment | 10/21/1971 | See Source »

...capper to the series of episodes comes near film's end. An instructor is demonstrating the proper way to dispatch a Cong with the use of a blackjack or the victim's own helmet...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: On WGBH Tonight: Slogging Through to 'Nam | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

Respectability. At almost any hour of the day there is steady action at the blackjack, baccarat, roulette and craps tables, many of them run by female dealers or croupiers. The players are affluent businessmen from Kuala Lumpur and nearby Singapore, accompanied by wives or mistresses in silk pantsuits. Collectively, they wager an estimated $100,000 every 24 hours. On a visit last month, the Sultan of Selangor put a royal stamp of respectability on the new venture by winning $133 at roulette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: Where the Action Is | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

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