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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For more than eight years, Robert M. Morgenthau has enforced federal laws in New York's Southern District with scrupulous impartiality. He has uncovered graft in Democratic as well as Republican city machines, convicted Wall Streeters for illegal Swiss bank dealings, and waged war against New York City'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: The Holdout | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

One thing is certain-Walt had no trouble getting the stuff. Take a ride down 116th Street sometime; see the pushers openly peddling heroin to young blacks for $2 a bag. If you go on a mild gray day, you will see doped youngsters nodding listlessly in doorways. This was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Why Did Walter Die? | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

The gallows and the gibbet were almost as commonplace as the village church, and "hanging days" were occasions for revelry. In London at the "Tyburn tree" (the present location of Marble Arch), crowds of 100,000 or more assembled to watch the festivities. Distinguished visitors to the ceremonies at Newgate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Sacking the Hangman | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Libya's new rulers are stressing their allegiance to the stern precepts of Islam. One of the junta's first decrees was to outlaw beer and whisky. In Tripoli TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott discovered that "up" and "down" elevator buttons had been covered by tape to obscure the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Young Men in a Hurry | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

9:30. Opening gong sounds. Conroys, now at front of crowd, fan out through basement. Other women come running and dodging like halfbacks from all directions, swiveling past pyramids of shoes ($4.95), bins full of records ($1.25), and piles of antique copper lanterns ($25). "As you're running," explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Boston Supershoppers | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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