Word: deaths
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While Ackermann was mayor in 1972, a 16-year-old high-school dropout named Larry Largey was found dead in a police cell. A police autopsy claimed he died of a drug overdose. City activists claimed he was beaten to death by the police...
News of Largey's death touched off a wave of riots in Roosevelt Towers, the East Cambridge housing project where he lived, as angry youths protested what they believed to be a murder of one of their...
Ackermann writes beautifully. "You the Mayor?" reads more like a novel than a political memoir. But the book begins to fall apart after the discussion of Largey's death...
...climax of "Who the Mayor?" is the series of protests that grew up in response to the 1972 death of 16-year-old Larry Largey, who activists claimed was beaten to death by police...
...Koop returned to find tears rolling down her face, a critical newspaper article on her lap. He considered leaving, but Betty persuaded him to stay. The two had been through a lot -- long years of medical school, Koop's fractured vertebra and stomach surgery and, worst of all, the death of a son -- and they stuck it out. Finally, in November 1981, he was confirmed by a Republican-controlled Senate...