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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restaurants--Elkins, Varsity Liquor, the Tasty, the Grist Mill, the Wursthaus, all in a blur. The top floors--this is a story about them--are white and austere from the outside, bits and pieces, actually, of three small tacked-toegether buildings. A big sign that says J. HENRY QUINN REAL ESTATE stretches across the space between the second and third stories...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Square's Peg | 11/5/1975 | See Source »

George W. Spartichino is one of those ethnic candidates that every Cambridge City Council election seems to attract. Even though he is running on a shoe-string budget--his bumper stickers are the left-overs of former Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn's governors campaign that have been stripped clean and reprinted--Spartichino insists that the north Cambridge voters that kept him in the State Legislature from 1956 to 1966 can send him to the council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Candidate Profiles | 10/30/1975 | See Source »

...Dixon '47 a hard-drinking Texan who has flown from El Paso for the game remains puzzled: he is convinced he has seen Bateman before, playing under a different name for either UTEP or Paul Quinn College in Waco...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Flanders Fields | 10/30/1975 | See Source »

When Chicago Plumber Eugene Quinn, 44, was laid off from his $8-$10-an-hour construction job a year ago, he thought he could count on $98-a-week unemployment compensation, to which the Illinois Bureau of Employment Security said he was entitled. But for five months the IBES failed to send him so much as a dime. Since his wife Mary Anne's earnings as a file clerk do not cover much more than food for the family of five, the Quinns' electricity and phone bills went unpaid, and both services were cut off. Finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Jobless Insecurity | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Quinn is not alone in his anguish; thousands of other jobless Illinoisans also have been kept waiting to get their benefit checks for inexcusably long periods. Just how many cannot be counted, since the IBES has been no more efficient at keeping track of how far behind it is than at handing out the money. But in August only 46.8% of Illinois jobless got their first checks within 28 days of filing a claim-the standard laid down by the U.S. Department of Labor. By contrast, 80% of the jobless in New York and Ohio, and 88% in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Jobless Insecurity | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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