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...business in liquor. A factory worker estimates that there are 20 whiskey houses in a 12-block area around his plant. A hippie who works as a part-time mail clerk for an insurance firm prefers four smaller houses near the sprawling University of Alabama Medical Center -- they have juke boxes. But as for reliable estimates of the total number, one Negro professional man who, like the housewife who does her shopping at the corner grocery, buys most of his booze from Bambam, put it this way: "I only know where the three or four...
...sullen-faced high school dropout dyed his hair black, caked his face with makeup, and stuffed so much wadding in his boots to make him look taller that he could hardly walk. Yet among the odd collection of restless, thrill-hungry teen-agers who hang out in the garish juke joints and drive-ins along Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard (TIME, Nov. 26), swart, blue-eyed "Smitty" commanded adoration and terror...
...when they sang "Where Did Our Love Go" everything was forgiven in one gigantic scream and the kids in the top row of the bleachers got up and danced. And we headed straight for the juke box in Tommy's Lunch to hear them all again...
...bored, vacant-eyed teen-agers who hang out at the drive-ins and juke joints along Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard, Charles Howard Schmid Jr., 23, was known as a swinger. A well-muscled onetime state high-school gymnastics champion, Smitty always had wheels, money, tall tales and an inexhaustible supply of available girls' phone numbers...
...recall how Clarence Earl Gideon (Gideon v. Wainwright) was convicted on circumstantial evidence of taking money from the cigarette machine and juke box in a poolroom. For this the judge imposed the maximum sentence of five years. Compare this with the monstrous swindle of Anthony De Angelis [TIME, June 4]. How can the law be so prejudiced, so unbalanced, that he could be put on probation...