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Wilson's stress on service and sensitivity is not always translated into better behavior on the beat. Julius Hobson, a local black militant, claims that many D.C. cops are as harsh as ever to the black and the poor???except that "they are more clever than they used to be and usually hold back if there are cameras around." Though most of Wilson's men admire his brains and courage, subordinates have been known to blunt his directives. His order to avoid minor arrests during the November demonstrations was never announced to the cops in one district?they read about...
...state legislatures reconvene next January, many will be asked to modernize their laws along the A.L.I, line followed by Colorado. Even if all 50 states were to do so, the problem of illegal abortion, with its high infection rate and considerable risk of death?especially for the poor???would remain...
Death at the Heart. Professional critics such as Lewis Mumford have long warned that the U.S. city in general had something more than a slight case of congestion and aching joints. But most people thought of the problem only in terms of slum clearance and better housing for the poor???a worthy but not exhilarating objective. Only gradually did it become clear that the sickness of the cities was a kind of heart disease; they have been dying at the center, where the great stores and great buildings and great enterprises are supposed to be. The suburban sprawl, in leeching...
...green buckram," marshaling perhaps 2,000 mourners. The Super-Reporter noted "an old wattled hinterland peasant with gold earrings. . . . The pathetic mourning of the very poor???ragged arm bands made from black petticoats. . . ." He described the 60 coffins at the grey stone gates "under the splendor of flowers, red banners and black streamers." He let Novelist Lewis spill drops of irony on the "oozing" funeral orations: ". . . such measured, useful and reasonable words . . . uttered by bearded and clever men?all of it like a nice debating society...