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Just this month, for instance, New York began to apply its new "anti-john" law, imposing stiffer penalties for prostitutes' clients (johns) who in the past usually got off with the equivalent of a traffic ticket. Early hauls have included a 69-year-old man from New Jersey, let off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Unhappy over Hookers | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Chicago has also been zeroing in on pimps this year. Last year the emphasis was on customers, who were picked up at the rate of 40 a night. That campaign has been taken up by local volunteers who have formed the Broadway Hookers Patrol, roaming Chicago's northeast side streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Unhappy over Hookers | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

At least one group of citizens is faring well: the customers of prostitutes. Under a law that took effect shortly after the pooper-scooper statute, the names of hookers' patrons are available to the press whenever the vice squad strikes. Frets Captain Eugene Brozio at Manhattan's Midtown North precinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A City Without Newspapers.. | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

At 8:43 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 11, acting on the advice of meteorologists, the trio lifted off from Presque Isle-and nearly crashed. Hitting a pocket of warm, light air, the balloon dipped sharply down over a gravel pit before recovering. By Monday evening, with all going well, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Whole World To See | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

In a study at Johns Hopkins University, Epidemiologists Irving I. Kessler and J. Page Clark questioned 519 patients with bladder cancer. The patients were asked about their consumption of saccharin and cyclamate (an artificial sweetener banned in 1970) in beverages and foods. Their answers to these and questions relating to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Second Opinions | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

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