Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three years ago, the Giants were one of the toughest teams in the National Football League, winners of four Eastern Conference championships in five years. Sherman, a Brooklyn boy himself, won a ten-year contract of $40,000 per. But the Giants decided that their team needed rebuilding. Quarterback Y. A. Tittle went to sell insurance in California, and the Giants traded away an All-Pro linebacker (Sam Huff), two All-Pro tackles (Roosevelt Grier and Dick Modzelewski), and an All-Pro defensive back (Erich Barnes). Result: in 1964, the Giants won two of 14 games. In 1965, they...
...short supply throughout the country, and the government is not likely to give more than mere sympathy. Nor can the fruit farmers expect much of a break in the weather. Israeli Meteorologist Leo Krown has predicted that through January, local rainfall will be below normal -and the Brooklyn-born scientist speaks with authority. In each of the past 16 years, he reports in the Journal of Applied Meteorology, his new method for long-range winter rainfall forecasts for the eastern Mediterranean area would have been 100% accurate...
...committee has disaffiliated itself with any existing political group. "We don't want to have to sacrifice our principles," said Gerald M. Schaflander, a member of the steering committee. Schaflander is an instructor in Sociology at Brooklyn College...
THAT is how the politician hero of Hogan's Goat, a recent play about the 19th century Irish in Brooklyn, recalls the era when ward politics was one of the few ways in which the immigrant masses could dream of sharing power. The ethnic vote-the vote of "our kind"-has remained part of the American political vocabulary for a century. Big-city bosses operated on the assumption that they could deliver that vote to whatever candidate they chose-all they needed was a Christmas turkey, a memory for the names of the children, and a fluency...
...parents of an infant with suspicious injuries are presumed guilty of abuse-and must prove otherwise or lose custody of their child. Until now, many of the country's "battered children" (10,000 a year) lacked such protection because few can speak and their parents shield one another. Brooklyn Family Court Judge Harold Felix has attacked all that in the case of an infant whom a hospital found suffering from broken legs and ribs. Charged with abuse, the parents sought dismissal for lack of evidence against them. Judge Felix invoked the negligence-law principle of res ipsa loquitur...