Word: poopers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least one group of citizens is faring well: the customers of prostitutes. Under a law that took effect shortly after the pooper-scooper statute, the names of hookers' patrons are available to the press whenever the vice squad strikes. Frets Captain Eugene Brozio at Manhattan's Midtown North precinct house: "To get any impact on the Johns, you need widespread publicity, and thanks to the strike we're not getting...
Though most New Yorkers' initial reaction was that the law is probably unenforceable, retailers reported brisk sales of sanitary devices ranging from 15? disposable cardboard shovels to $11 long-handled pooper scoopers equipped with a flashlight for nocturnal emitters. One apartment complex unveiled a canine comfort station, whose white-tiled premises were dutifully christened by Toto (né Megs), Dorothy's dog in the Broadway musical The Wiz. On the first day of the law, only 22 litter tickets were issued; yet to close observers of sidewalks and parks, there was a marked diminution in dog litter...
...about-face, he declared a three-month freeze. At present, Reuss is striving to relieve the 5.9% unemployment rate by plugging a "Jobs Now" program that would create some 500,000 public-service positions. Nixon's plan to open 130,000 such jobs, Reuss says, is "a pitiful pooper of a program." He is also determined to close remaining loopholes in federal income tax regulations that allow a few wealthy people to get away with paying little or no tax every year...