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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking telephone bets. But following the late Senator Estes Kefauver's disclosures of widespread gambling in the county, Special Prosecutor Nelson Stamler launched a probe that resulted in indictments against 77 people, including two police chiefs. To nobody's surprise, Stamler soon was replaced. One reason the reform efforts failed may well be that local political bosses, many of them thoroughly venal, enjoy virtual veto power over the appointment of county judges and prosecutors...
...four others still lived with her, and she supported them on a $412 monthly welfare check. About two months ago, after the family was evicted from their apartment for not paying rent, they moved into a single dingy room in a friend's home. There was only one bed for all six of them...
...One thing is certain-Walt had no trouble getting the stuff. Take a ride down 116th Street sometime; see the pushers openly peddling heroin to young blacks for $2 a bag. If you go on a mild gray day, you will see doped youngsters nodding listlessly in doorways. This was Walt's Main Street; it was all he ever knew...
When he was found on the bathroom floor of a neighborhood rooming house, he was wearing one of those Snoopy sweatshirts so popular with kids of his age. It bore the inscription: "I wish I could bite somebody ... I need a release from my inner tensions!" It was not just heroin that killed Walter. Maybe, like many another child born black in the ghetto, he died of his whole life...
...meetings were broken off by the Chinese, whose foreign office had almost ceased to function as a result of the ravages of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. In 1966-67, Peking recalled its ambassadors from all over the world. Even now it has replaced only one in Eastern Europe-in Rumania, which has remained neutral in the Sino-Soviet quarrel. Late last year, presumably in a test of the new Nixon Administration, the Chinese agreed to a single meeting in Warsaw in February, only to cancel it abruptly after a Chinese diplomat in Holland defected...