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...four prisoners were in their early 20s−tough, streetsmart, prison-wise. They compared jails the way Yalies compare prep schools. They shied away from pointing to specific causes for the fight. "All the tensions just came out," said Earl Moore, Pontiac head of the Disciples. Gang rivalries had been going on for some time. According to the leaders, each organization had preserved some form of identification−either a private greeting that members gave each other or special berets or insignia they were permitted to wear. Fights that normally would have remained disputes between two individuals exploded into confrontations...
...Brooks, boss of the Vice Lords: "Now when a dude makes that kind of charge, he is brought before the leaders. Now the rumor man has to validate his stories." Finally, a drive was organized by the leaders to dispose of all "shanks" (knives). "What we have here now," Earl Moore said, "is a sort of United Nations to settle disagreements. The U.N. folks have their SALT talks; we have our shank talks...
Both studies were based on a detailed analysis of 41 representative private and public campuses (U.S. total: 2,500) by Economist Earl F. Cheit, a Berkeley professor working temporarily this year for the Ford Foundation. He found that most of the colleges had frozen faculty salaries and deferred building maintenance, and that many had made even more extraordinary cuts. For example, New York University sold its University Heights campus. The state college system in Minnesota laid off 168 faculty members. Fisk University abolished its Afro-American institute. St. Louis University closed its schools of dentistry and engineering. In addition, nearly...
...greatest modern lawyers and jurists, from Clarence Darrow to Oliver Wendell Holmes and Earl Warren, have been men noted for their humane reactions and good common sense, rather than their technical legal craftsmanship...
Married. James Edward Lascelles. 19, second son of the Earl of Harewood (the Queen's cousin) and 20th in line of succession to the British throne; and Freddy Duhrssen, 19, American student and member of a Suffolk commune; both for the first time; in Wortham, England. Lascelles, organist for a rock group called the Global Village Trucking Company, and Duhrssen met more than a year ago and, according to the bride, "fell restaurant." in love in a vegetarian...