Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Muckraking Ache. When the non commercial station managers were in formed that PBL had prepared pocket documentaries on the campaigns of Louise Day Hicks in Boston and Negro Mayoralty Candidates Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher in Cleveland and Gary, Ind., they began worrying about whether they would have to make room for opposing points of view. Similarly, PBL's plans for "anti-commercials" on smoking and the relatively high prices of name-brand aspirin were bound to excite complaints from offended business interests. The problem for PBL staffers who ache to do some muckraking is not how to avoid...
...candidate with a strong civil rights record, Smith's greatest potential strength lay in the predominantly Negro areas such as Gerttown. Gerttown is one of the city's pocket ghettos--rows of low level shabby brick buildings squashed together inside a wall of light industry. But even in these wards Smith was defeated by a Catholic candidate whose campaign tactics were to approach the local priest with a certain sum of money. New Orleans is ninety per cent Catholic. "I tried to speak to the priests but they wouldn't see me. They had obviously been told not to have...
...stood in at the table for over an hour as one customer plunged deeper and deeper. The man they were watching was the stickman running the game, Clayton Gatterdam, 47, whom they spotted handling the dice instead of moving them with his stick, and occasionally reaching into his apron pockets between rolls. When the agents pounced, they found four pairs of mis-spotted dice in secret compartments in Gatterdam's apron; a fifth pair was in his trouser pocket...
...signatures of 1,000 eligible voters in his province, a step that requires campaign money and at least some rudiments of an organization. Yet the government ruled that each candidate must run on his own without party or associations, and must pay for his campaign out of his own pocket or through private financial connections. Since a two-week campaign with any hope of success would cost at least $50,000, that seems to rule out anyone who is not wealthy. As a clincher, the government requires all candidates to swear "adhesion" to Franco's Falange...
...druggists are participating in the plan and accepting Medicaid patients. Some doctors say that they cannot be bothered with the paper work and would rather treat patients free. Some are suspected of holding out (though there can be no proof) because Medicaid pays by check, whereas now they can pocket unreported cash fees. Some doctors who do participate are enjoying hugely increased incomes because now they are sought out by patients formerly kept away by pride and poverty. The biggest boom has been in dental services, for which there was a huge and largely unrecognized backlog demand. When Medicaid started...