Word: lawless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hook up to overhead electric trolley lines or run on its own power. Other suggestions focused on improving mass-transit finances. Several people proposed that municipal buses, trolleys and subway cars earn additional Income by hauling freight in off-hours. To produce perhaps $1.5 million in annual revenues, Benjamin Lawless of Washington, D.C., urged that a grain crop be grown on the 5 million acres of federal land bordering the interstate highways. Then there was San Diego Bus Fleet Owner Jack Haberstroh's idea: he charges no fares on his buses, but makes a profit nonetheless by turning each...
...first beneficiary of organized crime is the organized criminal. The second is his well-paid opposition. The detectives, private guards, attack dogs and Kung Fu instructor all flourish in this lawless epoch; close behind are the writers of self-defense manuals. The most recherché of these literary crime fighters is David Krotz, author of How to Hide Almost Anything. Krotz, who is a carpenter as well as a writer, conjures up a harrowing world. Intruders perch upon window sills, second-story men prowl through closets, burglars tiptoe through kitchens and bedrooms. Their quest...
Loan Manager Noreen Lawless got together a list of unfilled menial jobs and began calling up her delinquent clients to offer them work. She had a lot of trou ble making people believe her. "They thought it was some kind of gimmick," she says. "They never had a bank offer to help them out before...
Cambridge Mayor Walter I Sullivan showed reporters at last night's city council meeting a telephone message from Joseph Lawless of the GSA. Stating that the GSA, is postponing any further projects at the Environmental practice Act of including the public bearing for February...
...Lawless could not be reached for comment last night...