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...Dengler. After four years of unsuccessful attempts to get North Dakota and Minnesota authorities, the telephone company and a series of employers to identify him by his numerical name, Dengler, now 32 and a sometime short-order cook, last week sued for the name change in Minnesota's Hennepin County district court...
CLARE, 16, having run away from home, met a pimp along Minneapolis' Hennepin Avenue and moved in with him. He persuaded her to hit the streets. "He wouldn't let me come into the house unless I brought him $150 a day," she recalled. After she was arrested for prostitution, she and her pimp flew to New York, where she worked for 16 months. She collected at least $100,000, of which she saved only $800. She was arrested 42 times for prostitution and once for grand larceny ("It was a trick who wanted his money back...
Every major U.S. city has its Santa Monica Boulevard. In Chicago, it is called Wells Street. In Minneapolis, it is Hennepin Avenue. San Francisco has its Broadway, and New York City its Times Square. Santa Monica Boulevard is neither the busiest nor the worst. It is only typical...
...level of liquor consumption often calls for some precautionary measures to remind revelers of the dangers of drunken driving. Two trailers from the Hennepin County Alcohol Safety Project offer breath tests to volunteers who want to know their intoxication levels. The police administer the program and drive the vans, but are good sports about leaving before the tailgaters drive off. Says Policeman Don Bowles, "If we stayed any longer, we'd have to arrest half the people here...
...Glasser is a pediatric specialist at Hennepin County General Hospital in Minneapolis. He composed this book, a kind of fictionalized nonfiction, out of events he has seen and others he has "heard of." Despite the author's evident concern for the unnecessary torture of children, in some ways this is a misleading effort. Glasser plays on the reader's response to suffering, as he did in 365 Days, his antiwar narrative about G.I.s mutilated in Viet...