Word: enlistments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under court order to produce a lineup of people who resemble an actual suspect, police usually scour the area for other offenders, or enlist police trainees or even idlers to help out-sometimes for a token payment. In this case, authorities were looking for two gunmen who had robbed Racine's Union Savings & Loan Assn. of $4,782 on Dec. 30. They had managed to arrest a single suspect, Robert Brantley. Officers hoped that two female tellers would pick Brantley from among six young blacks in the lineup. To the authorities' astonishment, both tellers identified not Brantley...
Particularly in the ghetto, the gang gives a kid the structured life he has never had at home or anywhere else. The peer pressure to enlist is almost irresistible. Rico, 17, joined a Puerto Rican gang in Chicago for "protection, man, protection. I was a skinny little kid, and I was tired of having hassles. You don't last long if you don't belong to a club. You can always count on having someone stand up for you." A 14-year-old boy who committed frequent robberies in Central Falls, R.I., and once smashed 350 windowpanes...
...only will I not enlist, I may desert...
...diseases, including bovine tuberculosis, salmonellosis, psittacosis, rabies and ringworm, which are directly transmissible from animals to people. Tufts University has been successful in obtaining $10 million in federal funds to build the first veterinary school in New England. Unlike any other professional school in the country, it would enlist the participation of each of the region's six state governments in collaboration with this university...
What motivates someone to enlist? A Mafia defector summed it up for TIME: "Money, power, recognition and respect." Most grew up in slums, where the neighborhood's most visibly successful men were connected with the Mob. Says Chicago Police Commander William Hanhardt: "The man with the big money and a fancy car is a man of prestige. It's something to aim for." There are practical benefits to membership: protection from competition, easy access to skilled lawyers and, if a Mafioso is jailed, financial support for his family...