Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Democrats made law-and-order work for them in Wisconsin also by underlining the fact that Republicans were running the state when student violence erupted in Madison. Liberal Democrat Patrick Lucey, a longtime Kennedy ally and a former Lieutenant Governor, profited from vexation over rising property taxes. His opponent, Lieutenant Governor Jack Olson, promised to postpone state tax increases, but Republican Governor Warren Knowles torpedoed him in mid-campaign by announcing that a tax rise was inevitable...
...Madison Avenue is also borrowing from that classic American art form, the western. The Gary Cooper of the genre is Heinz ketchup, which single-handed confronts a gang of Brand X baddies on the main street of a lonely cowtown. One of the baddies steps forward, caps come off, bottles upturn; the Brand X bottle soon lies empty in the dust. As the half-full Heinz bottle swaggers off, a sourdough voice brags: "Heinz, the slowest ketchup in the West -East, North and South...
...perils of parenthood, four Detroit-area communities have added the risk of 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. Mainly at the insistence of local police, Troy, West Bloomfield Township, Madison Heights and Pontiac have all recently enacted similar ordinances that hold parents responsible for preventing the sins of their children...
...real hammer for our men," beams Police Chief Robert Richardson of Madison Heights. It's also a real headache for many parents. According to some of the new laws, if youngsters under 17 are merely accused of a juvenile offense, let alone convicted, their parents may be charged with "neglect...
Michigan's Attorney General Frank Kelley thinks that the new laws might be unconstitutional because they hold a parent criminally liable even though he may have no knowledge of his child's offenses. Nevertheless, at least two other Michigan towns are considering similar measures, and Madison Heights Mayor Monte Geralds has already received hundreds of requests for copies of his law from towns all over the country...