Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though the student body prefers Nixon. Shriver's hyperbolic rhetoric goes over well in union halls: "Nixon is a man obsessed with power. What he cares about is money and military power, bucks and bombs." But it is an uphill battle. At the Polish-American Congress convention in Detroit this month, Shriver offered what he called a seven-point "Ethnic Magna Carta," but he received much less applause than Spiro Agnew, who simply reminded the audience how close the President felt to them. Agnew and Nixon received another kind of ethnic compliment in Chicago when Frank Sinatra once again...
...panelists who support McGovern reject the charge of radicalism, and cite their candidate's honesty, his support of civil rights and his concern for the poorer classes. Beulah Stepp, an Independent who works with retarded children in Detroit, says McGovern "isn't being radical: he's being an honest politician, which is hard to find these days." Joseph Turner, a Democratic sewing-machine repairman from Roselle, N.J., believes McGovern is more likely to look out for the working classes and enforce the law of the land on matters like school integration. Charles Sage, a Clifton, N.J., scientist...
...last month that Harvard has the best Black Studies Department in the area and that "other universities are attempting to match Harvard's program." Another article in the Boston Evening Globe was headlined "Afro-American Studies Program at Harvard Brings Results." A similar article appeared just recently in the Detroit Free Press, citing the substantial progress that the Department had made at Harvard. Finally, in this respect, at the recent convention of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, an organization founded by Carter Woodson, himself a Ph.D. graduate in history from Harvard, the program from Harvard...
Reports from each of TIME's U.S. bureaus largely confirm the FBI figures and suggest that the U.S. crime rate, though cruelly high, is finally leveling off. While crime continues to rise in rural and suburban areas, Washington, New York, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco are among 72 cities reporting an actual drop in major crimes. "I am not what you would call a starry-eyed dreamer," says Detroit Commissioner John Nichols, "but I am tempted to say that law enforcement is on the eve of a golden age. Now we are getting the money we need...
Defenses. Specifically to combat street crime, both Detroit and New York have tried using decoys. New York's Deputy Inspector Anthony Voelker told his squad that "anything that is legal, moral and works is satisfactory." The result has been a patrol of blind men, little old ladies, Santa Clauses, cripples, garbage men and rabbis, all armed cops. The squad's sentimental favorite is Policewoman Mary Glatzle, known as Muggable Mary in honor of her having been attacked more than 35 times...