Word: macke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city today has an estimated 20,000 addicts, most of them black, many of them concentrated along either Mack Avenue or Twelfth Street on opposite sides of the city. At one time, three loosely knit gangs regulated the distribution of Detroit's limited drug trade. But as the number of black users increased, along with the number of street pushers, organization began to break down. The gangs still control the flow of heroin into the city, but once it is cut, it is every man for himself...
...Heroin is peddled not on the street but from countless rundown apartments known in the drug trade as "quarter houses" and "shooting galleries." Quarter houses act as warehouses, where "caps" or bags are sold to owners of shooting galleries, of which some 2,000 are thought to exist. Along Mack Avenue there are 25 to 30 in one block. Drugs bought in galleries must be used on the premises so that the seller knows the buyer is not an undercover...
...first pick in 1968 by the Montreal Expos in its player draft before the club's initial season? And with what National League team was he formerly affiliated? (Mack Jones and John Bateman were the number two and three picks respectively...
...Kerr, professor of Public Speaking; Martin Kilson, professor of Government; Davia C. Kmsey, assistant professor of Education; Ernst Kitzinger, Porter University Professor; Klaus-Friedrich Koch, assistant professor of Social Anthropology; Rustam Z. Kothavala, director, Harvard Science Center, lecturer on Geology; Harry Levin, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature; Maynard Mack Jr., assistant professor of English; David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology...
...census sees it, suburbia also includes such unlikely terrain as Cascade County, around Great Falls, Mont. -lightly populated towns in flat, rolling wheat country-and Minnehaha County, surrounding Sioux Falls, S. Dak., mainly onetime farming towns that have increasingly become dormitory communities. Northwestern University Sociologist Raymond Mack says a suburb has only two distinct characteristics: proximity to a big city and specific political boundaries, which result in local control of government. Most of the people whom Harris questioned do not even think of themselves as suburbanites. More often, they would say that they live in a small city, a town...