Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Action Lines in attendance also raised their own awareness. They learned that mail-order merchandise is the most common target for complaints (followed by automobiles, home repairs, government agencies, utility companies, landlords and retail stores). The columnists were only dimly aware of the magnitude of the mailorder problem until their get-together. Then passing mention of the phrase "five towels for a dollar" sent a tidal wave of groans across the hall...
...Hines. The victim again accused him, but Mims "called in a psychologist, a teacher and an administrator from the special schools for the mentally disabled where Hines had been enrolled for several years. Hines, they said, cannot count to three or name the days of the week in order. Jack Anderson, professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, testified that any confession Hines made to police should be considered suspect...
...trial proceeded, the threat of violence was never far. Two bomb scares emptied the courtroom, and police confiscated several automatic weapons. Defense lawyers monitored CB radio conversations that called for the jury to "hang the nigger." Cullman Mayor Bob McGluckin vowed that the authorities could maintain order. Said he: "We have a peaceful, law-abiding community. We do not like outside people coming in and exerting a detrimental influence...
...Discouraged youngsters are almost natural prospects for membership in the city's underclass, quickly contributing to the ghetto plagues of violent crime, drug use and arson. Says one Lower East Side youngster: "A lot of kids want an education to get out of here. But in order to survive, they're dealing [drugs]. Kids ten and eleven make more money than their old man in the factory." Says another: "I saw some pictures of this place 20 years ago, and it had benches and trees. We took it over and we burned...
...pressmen went on strike after publishers of the three dailies posted new work rules which would have eliminated the jobs of nearly half of the 1550 pressmen at the three papers. The publishers insisted they needed relief from restrictive work rules and expensive manning requirements in order to meet competition from aggressive suburban papers...