Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Hoffa was back in prison last week-but just for dessert. The ex-boss of the Teamsters was announcing to several hundred inmates of the prison in Norfolk, Mass., the opening of the New England chapter of the National Association for Justice, which he founded in 1972 on his release from federal jail. Its aim: to help cons battle civil rights and legal problems. Tackling questions from the floor, Law-and-Order Convert Hoffa advocated the death penalty for "mad dog" killers and kidnapers. But he came out against giving immunity to "stool pigeons" because that, in his view...
...untangle. Yet a theme runs through his work. Edge of History laid the foundations. Initially it seemed to be the first-person adventures of an intellectual picaro charting his disenchantment with Los Angeles, the Esalen Institute, M.I.T., think tanks and other outposts of American culture. But in the final chapter, when Thompson soared into a free-form essay on myth as futurology, his intent became clear: he is a man questing for evidence of man's perfectibility...
...letter Monday, the Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) urged Tufts officials to accept conciliation plans offered by the EEOC. NOW recommended the action to Tufts President Burton C. Hallowell and members of the Board of Trustees...
...Excerpt from his interview in "Fathers and Sons," a chapter in "Working...
...excerpt from her interview in "Footwork," a chapter in "Working...