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...period is as rich and varied as the turn-of-the-century New York City of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, and the range of real-life characters is even greater: Hoodlums Al Capone and Frank Nitti and Machine Gun Jack McGurn, Mayors Big Bill Thompson and Anton Cermak, Roman Catholic Cardinal George Mundelein, Utilities Tycoon Samuel Insull and Assassin Giuseppe Zangara, who struck down Cermak in Miami while trying to kill Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...McDonald's on Cermak Road, the main commercial street, there were 100 patrons one day last week but not a black in the place. "Oh, we get a few colored in here," said a grandmotherly woman behind the counter. "In fact, I think I sold a Big Mac to one a couple of weeks ago." In Boulevard Manor, the most expensive part of town, a black face is not merely remarkable, but alarming. )own here," says a Manor resident, anyone who sees a colored person walking along the street without a delivery uniform on calls the police...
...their limited vocabularies. In sexual abuse cases, lawyers employ a new kind of visual aid: dolls with sex organs. Using a pair of dolls, a witness can play-act what happened. Jurors in Red Wing, Minn., found this tactic thoroughly convincing in the prosecution a year ago of James Cermak, 27, for sexually abusing ten children. After four of them used dolls to show what Cermak had done to them, he was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison...
...Cermak Memorial Hospital, a 111-bed facility serving the Cook County correctional system in Illinois, a prisoner with a policeman's bullet in his buttock waited three hours for treatment...
State prisons are little better. Alabama's correctional system, which has 7,000 inmates, currently has only one doctor. Chicago's Cermak Memorial, which lost its hospital accreditation this month, depends almost entirely on part-time physicians. Even federal prisons, which tend to be better run and better financed, are short staffed. Three of the four doctors at the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., which has 2,100 inmates, plan to leave at the end of the month. Many prisons must rely on untrained inmates to screen patients or perform medical services. In Alabama, unsupervised prisoners have...