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Since 1967, when Carl Stokes became the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, his greatest failing has been law enforcement. The Cleveland police force has been racked by dissension and poor leadership. Crime has jumped by 54% since 1968, giving Cleveland one of the fastest-growing crime rates in the country...
...affair that could have been called Gold Diggers of 1970. They expected, with good reason, to be provided with both entertainment and provocative comments on the management of money. Those are the elements that the speaker, 28-year-old Gilbert E. Kaplan, has mixed to create one of the fastest-growing businesses on Wall Street and a personal net worth of about...
...native population of what is now the U.S. was probably between 1,000,000 and 3,000,000. By 1860, that had dropped to about 340,000, and by 1910 to an all-time low of 220,000. No longer vanishing, the Indians are now the nation's fastest-growing minority. * The first reservation opened in 1853, and the system still includes some 284 BIA-supervised enclaves. Indians are free to leave reservations whenever they wish, but those who do not live on them do not benefit from most Indian-aid programs. All Indians were granted full citizenship status...
...afternoon became more difficult for him later, however. He and the Crimson's John Munk swam in the butterfly in what was expected to be a great race, but Munk swam away from Boizelle at the end to win in two minutes flat, his fastest time of the season. Four events later, Boizelle edged Steve Baumgart by one second in the breaststroke with a 2:21.1 clocking...
Colburn's task was to catch freshman Marcel Phillipe, who was the fastest high school half-miler in the country last year. He had decided to attend Fordham despite being accepted at Harvard...