Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philadelphia: Tough-Guy Style A federal grand jury last week indicted three Philadelphia policemen for violating the civil rights of Machinist Edgardo Ortiz, 26. One night last June, according to eyewitnesses, the cops rapped on Ortiz's glass front door and demanded to question him about a report of a family disturbance. When Ortiz angrily protested, they smashed through the glass and pummeled him with fists and clubs in the presence of his wife and three-year-old daughter. Next, neighbors reported, the cops tossed Ortiz through a window, handcuffed him and threw him into a police van. They...
...self-effacing in discussing his assumption of the new post, constantly describing himself as "the new boy" who "hardly knows his way in the door," and whose first priority is still "just trying to learn the job." Yet it is obvious that Edward L. Keenan '57, new dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been doing his homework this summer. He sits in his office in University Hall 24 in complete command of the array of charts, graphs and reports that fill the files in his desk. He cites statistics from some of the books he included...
...presidency in 1940, the loser visited F.D.R. in the White House and asked bluntly why the President kept on as his closest aide such a controversial figure as Harry Hopkins. Roosevelt told Willkie that if he were ever to become President, "You'll be looking through that door and knowing that practically everybody who walks through it wants something out of you. You'll learn what a lonely job this is, and you'll discover the need for somebody like Harry Hopkins, who asks for nothing except to serve...
After the day's appointments are over, she sits on the floor of her cluttered office next door to the President's private study, and deals with the flood of letters stacked on every horizontal surface, reading and making notes until about midnight. "In the Nixon years," she says, "this office was a p.r. tool. People who came in were given a photo of the President and a list of his accomplishments. Now they tell us what they think, positive or negative. They don't all leave here getting everything they ask for. But they...
...housing to begin with and then specify minimum lot sizes that force builders and home buyers to purchase more land than they may want or need. William Kennedy, president of the Homebuilders Association of Greater Chicago, traces the zoning restrictions to a "We've got ours, now close the door mentality" among people who already own houses. Their defense is that they want to hold down property taxes?by reserving land for future use by industry and stores that would carry a large share of the tax burden, and by avoiding an invasion of families with young children that would...