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By last week his fear seemed uncomfortably close to reality. As temperatures rose unseasonably into the nineties, gangs of roving youths in white and black neighborhoods stoned more cars. A 17-year-old mentally retarded girl was struck in the face when a gang of blacks surrounded a car driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Boston Heats Up Once Again | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

San Franciscans have endured two municipal employees' strikes in the past two years (the most recent was a three-day-long police and firemen's walkout last August), and were ready to cope. Traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge was tied up for extended rush hours but never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: You Can't Heat City Hall | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

Blackjack Games. As 300 strikers picketed city hall last week, a scuffle broke out between them and office workers who tried to cross the lines. A city worker was punched by strikers as he crossed a picket line, a municipal judge was thrown to the sidewalk, and police finally had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: You Can't Heat City Hall | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

City officials, who keep a close watch on the Souris, have followed a carefully rehearsed plan in preparing for the floods. A well-staffed flood control center, resembling a military command post, was set up to begin coordinating an evacuation system and dike patrol. National Guardsmen and personnel from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Waiting for the Mouse | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

It did not happen-not, at least, during the war. In retrospect, that is remarkable. In 1776 there were no municipal police forces and almost no prisons. If a person was the victim of a crime, he would have to find and even apprehend the offender himself. There were sheriffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

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