Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floats did not roll. The few that did were forced to move to Kenner or some other shopping-center suburb, since Morial could not guarantee order in the downtown area. As Mardi Gras Day drew nearer, public support for the police waned, down from 67% in a local television poll two weeks ago to 17% last week...
Public sympathy was strained even further when Police Union Leader Vincent J. Bruno, related by marriage to New Orleans Mafioso Carlos Marcello, told reporters, "If the talks break down, we'll wreck the city." He later apologized, but not before both local papers had run frontpage editorials denouncing police conduct. Last week the police reduced their demands, but the strike went...
Julian Mack and Malcolm Cooper, who qualified first and second (and finished fourth and sixth) in this event in last year's meet at Providence, are both entered in the sprint tonight. Ex-local schoolboy star Jack Gauthier will accompany that duo to the starting blocks in what could be the night's wildest individual race. Gauthier motored to a lightning-quick split of 1:40.19 in his leg of the Crimson's victorious 800 free relay last night...
...persuading Boston-area voters that the Democratic Party holds the answer to their problems. Club members would no longer be able to limit themselves to quadrennial Presidential campaigns. If the club is to stay together, its members will need to take a more active role in state and local politics. While they have preoccupied themselves with their own squabbling, a number of important issues have passed them by--from the drinking age to the construction of the Red Line, each of which presents an opportunity for lobbying and politicking...
Since it was Sunday and local government offices were closed, the rangers took Yates to the county seat, an hour away. To do so, they had to go through the formality of arresting him on a civil charge--failure to register for the climb, which entails a $25-to-$30 fine. Bail was set. However, Yates didn't have the money to both pay the bondsman and buy a bus ticket back to Cambridge. Plus, there was the lure of spending a night--on civil disobedience charges--in jail. So jail...