Word: copse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chastened Mood. Evidence is mounting that both citizens and companies are indeed responding to the crisis-in some cases perhaps too much so. No one is ahead of New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne in enforcing Churchillian measures in a state that is heavily dependent on natural gas for residential as...
Serpico. Blood and guts story of the New York undercover detective who was set up by other police because he refused to go along with the department's "official" payoff system. Al Pacino in one of his lesser roles--lots of nice disguises, a crazed scene with Pacino caught in...
The beatings, the stonings and the angry demonstrations that accompanied school desegregation all seem to be behind. Where there was hatred, there now is relief and a rising sense of vitality. The South Boston Marshalls, which once fought against school busing, now run afterschool athletic programs. Luxury apartments and a...
How did Rees blow the rest? Before his arrest he told "My Story" in a remarkable communique to the world, revealing in disillusioning detail an unsuspected peril in stealing a fortune: your new friends can be as larcenous as you, and as dangerous as the cops. Rees' 17-page...
Ever since the gold rush, do-it-yourself lawmen have aided the Bay Area's overtaxed gendarmerie by offering extra protection to merchants and homeowners. The 1899 city charter legitimized the freelancers and brought them under the official umbrella of the police department, but kept them in business. The...