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...John Birchers and antiwar protesters-turned out to rally and march for Calley. "The President sort of took the steam out of people," said Terry Repsher, a Houston high school junior. Dallas, however, bloomed with bumper stickers demanding: WHY CALLEY? A giant pro-Calley billboard blossomed in Bridgeport, Conn. But from the Timber Ridge School in Skokie, Ill., a Chicago suburb, 41 students wrote Nixon: "We are ten and eleven years old and afraid to grow up in America if a murderer is considered a hero...
...book is essentially a hatchet job, released more or less to coincide with the campaign for last week's mayoralty election in Chicago, Royko sees Mayor Richard Daley as an inevitable product of the Chicago environment. The mayor was born into a workingman's family in Bridgeport, an Irish neighborhood in that South Side region known, without comment, as Back of the Yards. He was born to membership in the Hamburgs, an athletic club whose members took their exercise by beating the bejesus out of any blacks and Slavs foolish enough to stray onto the wrong side...
...that at least one-third of the rise in joblessness during the past 18 months came from defense cutbacks: net reductions of 500,000 servicemen, 130,000 Defense Department civilian employees and 1,500,000 defense workers. Stubborn pockets of high unemployment in Seattle (10.9%), Wichita, Kans. (9.3%), and Bridgeport, Conn. (7.1%) bear witness to the disrupted careers of Americans who once got high pay in high-technology industries. Some have moved to Europe or Mexico in search of work. Boston Engineer Arnold Limberg once earned $20,000 a year preparing secret reports on moon-landing test procedures. After...
...week later, on May 28, police arrested Mrs. Loretta Luckes, who was on a weekend visit to New Haven from her home in Bridgeport. Mrs. Luckes-who told police that she had been a Panther for only a few weeks-was pregnant at the time of her arrest. She later had her baby in jail...
...week later, on May 28, police arrested Mrs. Loretta Luckes, who was on a weekend visit to New Haven from her home in Bridgeport. Mrs. Luckes-who told police that she had been a Panther for only a few weeks-was pregnant at the time of her arrest. She later had her baby in jail...