Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the small hours, the grand jury chambers of New York City's Queens County courthouse swarmed with police officers and district attorney's men. Then, when search warrants had been signed, teams of detectives organized, and watches synchronized, 150 cops fanned out in 15 different directions, heading for silent houses in Queens and other parts of New York City and Long Island. Minutes after sunrise, the squads simultaneously rapped on 15 doors and arrested a surprisingly respectable group of 16 Negro citizens. Among them were Assistant Junior High School Principal Herman Ferguson, 47, Brooklyn Schoolteacher Ursula West...
...Federal District Judge Lee Ingraham indicated that if Clay failed to reverse his conviction on appeal to higher courts, he would consider reducing sentence to something closer to the average 18 months usually given in such cases. Whatever the final sentence, it appears unlikely that Clay-still indisputably the best heavyweight in the world -will ever again be a championship contender. As he himself once noted: "I just said I was the greatest, not the smartest...
Latest & Last. She was a successful fashion designer under her maiden name, Elaine Terry. He was an $18,000-a-year chief prosecutor for the Los Angeles district attorney, in charge of the D.A.'s suburban Downey office. Between them, they were earning $40,000 a year. They were a good-looking, high-style couple. Elaine, with her hazel eyes, red hair and trim, 114-lb. figure, was still, at 43, a woman woman-watchers watched. Jack, 6 ft. 1 in. and handsome, with a lively, inquiring mind, was a 45-year-old social lion...
...villagers is maintained by a few giant commercial enterprises that sell shopkeepers such everyday goods as soap, tea, cigarettes and matches. At the behest of the Ford Foundation, the Health Ministry began in 1966 to use this commercial pipeline for a pilot program in condom distribution in the Meerut District, an area of 3,000,000 people adjacent to New Delhi...
...sound is also a scene. With its roots in the LSDisneyland of the Haight Ashbury district, the music is a reflection of the defiant new bohemians, their art nouveau and madly mod fashions. Performances at the Fillmore attempt to induce psychedelic experiences without drugs. The hippies and teenyboppers, wearing everything from Arab caftans and top hats to frock coats and turbans, huddle over sticks of burning incense, casually daub the floors and each other with fluorescent paint...