Word: j
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Melvin J. Konner, Associate Professor...
Disco and coffee-shop owners are variously hostile and hospitable to the cops. At Arthur J's, four men began openly selling drugs at a table; another time, a 15-year-old girl ran out of the ladies' room screaming, "Oh my God, I broke the needle off in my arm!" Shirley Norris, the manager, hired her own night guard-and then gathered signatures for a petition demanding extra police protection. Now she's seeing "familiar faces back again" -her old "straight" clientele...
DIED. Ernst Bloch, 92, unorthodox Marxist philosopher with a sizable following among student radicals; of a heart attack; in Tubingen, West Germany. His master work, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope), completed during his prewar years in the U.S., laid the groundwork for Theologian Jũrgen Moltmann's "philosophy of hope." Bloch later taught at the University of Leipzig, East Germany, before defecting to the West in 1961 because he was "no longer willing to expose my work or myself to undignified conditions...
...press's attitude, is how well its total coverage reflects reality: Does it seem to harp on the bad because it does not sufficiently record the good? This is the argument frequently made by businessmen, who are the folks who added boosterism to the English language. David J. Mahoney, board chairman...
...agents trained in the Quantico center received the tip about the moonlighting music publishers in Philadelphia and cracked the case wide open. But their efforts may receive a setback this week, when U.S. Judge J. William Ditter rules on defense motions to throw out the indictments. The reason: no federal law specifically prohibits the theft of computer time or computer data. The U.S. Attorney decided to charge the pair with mail fraud for advertising their music, and that may prove inadequate...