Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been a great lesson to me to know that in life it is the unexpected that happens. Sometimes it's tragic and sometimes it's happy like this time." --Leopold Stokowski, reuniting as guest conductor with the Philadelphia Orchestra after an embittered 19-year interval...
Justice Department officials rate the city's police force "the most brutal in the nation. A local watchdog organization called the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia (PILCOP), set up two years ago with federal money, has logged more than 400 complaints about brutality so far his year. Reviewing 432 claims over a one-year period, PILCOP found that 54% involved blacks, although they account for just 35% of the city's population. From 1970 through 1974, another PILCOP study revealed, cops shot 236 people, killing 81 of them; half of those were unarmed. In researching a series...
...county grand jury has returned only one indictment-against an off-duty cop who shot a motorist after an accident. Says Vance: "Citizens here are generally behind the police." He believes "the feds" might eventually have to take on the task of prosecuting lawless Houston cops-iust as in Philadelphia...
...supreme deference, never bothered to examine Lance's banking practices before he left the state. Nor did the national press catch on until fully four months after he became Budget Director. TIME broke the story of Lance's chaotic personal finances on May 23. Then came the Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Sun-Times and other publications, with disclosures about overdrafts, alleged abuses of correspondent banking relationships and other questionable practices...
DIED. Zero Mostel, 62, comedian and actor best known for his poignant portrayal of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia, where he was about to open in a new play. The son of a rabbi, Samuel Joel Mostel decided to be a painter, but supported himself with a number of odd jobs, including working as a $5-a-night stand-up comic at neighborhood parties. When he was 27, he made his professional acting debut with a series of impressions at a café and within the year was in Hollywood. Like the character...