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...corruption, vice and violence, few cities could match 19th century San Francisco. Opium dens, brothels, gambling parlors, Shanghai saloons and gangs flourished by dint of maximum bribes to police and minimum legal scrutiny. Civic morality occasionally counterattacked the Barbary Coast and its adjunct, Chinatown; in 1875 authorities formed an elite corps of policemen to check Chinatown's bloody tong wars...
...sources said, will divide the duties now held by Watson: Archie C. Epps, who is presently assistant dean of the College, and Charles P. Whitlock, now assistant to President Pusey for Civic and Governmental Relations...
...sources said, will divide the duties now held by Watson: Archie C. Epps, who is presently assistant dean of the College, and Charles P. Whitlock, now assistant to President Pusey for Civic and Governmental Relations...
...weeks after receiving the letter, Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to President Pusey for Civic and Governmental Relations, replied that the University was "unable" to comply with the request. Whitlock's reply left open the question of whether the University-like Tufts and a number of other institutions-views the request as an attack on academic freedom...
...With U.S. aid, Danang will soon receive a 2,000,000-gallon-capacity water-purification plant. In Saigon, 29 public health clinics have been established. Insecticide spraying is now widespread. The U.S.-run Saigon Civil Assistance Group (SCAG) is encouraging neighborhood self-help projects to increase civic awareness...