Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley was hopping mad. Just the day before, midday Loop traffic had been snarled for four hours while 500 civil rights demonstrators marched on city hall and the nearby board of education building to protest a decision to keep School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis on...
A citywide school boycott scheduled for last week fell through when the board's attorney got a court injunction prohibiting it. Instead, the righters marched, causing the Loop's traffic tie-up. Next day some 500 marchers lined up in two lanes on Lake Shore Drive near Soldier...
Sad Suspect. Mapp's purpose was to make state police observe the Fourth Amendment guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Until then, courts in about half the states admitted illegally seized evidence-typically, the fruit of searches made without lawful warrants. Thus in 1957, Cleveland police without a warrant...
Occasionally such lurid dialogue performs a public service. An agitated mother told Speak Up in Durham, N.C., that two strange women had just tried to recruit her junior high school daughter to "date men for money." No sooner had she hung up than a second mother called in to say...
New Caution. As a result, conscientious law-enforcement officers are beginning to go out of their way to abide by the rules, while they wait for clarification from the court. In Manhattan, for example, police have been under heavy pressure for months to solve the grisly murders of two women...