Word: rich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Squad in question is three kids, a white boy, a white girl, and a black boy. The girl, the run-away daughter of a prostitute, was picked up by the police for vagrancy. The white boy, who had been thrown out by his rich family, was arrested for car theft. And the black boy was busted during the Watts riots. The three have been given "a second chance" by the cops. They are trained by the police as undercover agents, so they can work for the cops on cases involving teenagers. The premise of the show is rich in unintended...
SEVERAL other bits are like that. The white kid says a suspect must be rich because he has an eight thousand dollar car, and the black kid (picked up in the Watts riot, you remember), replies, "May-be he's not rich. I know a cat on welfare who has a bigger car." The remark might come from a militant consciousness akin to Malcolm X's when he called welfare emasculating, but considering that the black boy is working for the police, it probably is just as absurd, vicious, and ugly as it seems...
...part that perhaps hits closest to home for most viewers is when the rich white kid tells about his past. He admits in a teary and impassioned speech that he hadn't left home voluntarily at all, but had been thrown out by his parents. "I was obnoxious. I shot down everything they tried to do for me. I wasn't just anti-establishment but anti-everything. I was kicked...
...intution about football games had been as deep as his knowledge of himself, he would today be a very rich man. But, casting aside last week's mini-disaster, let us turn to this afternoon's Ivy League football slate...
...bank's capital stock; big members have sometimes irritated national pride by outvoting the numerical majority. McNamara met this problem by sounding out key directors before meetings, solving the objections that might prevent unanimous agreement. He has uncovered new sources of loan funds in such oil-rich countries as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. He is already emphasizing the African and Latin American aid referred to in his speech. Last week the bank and its subsidiary, International Development Association, approved loans or credits totaling $25.1 million for roads, forestry projects and livestock programs in Nigeria, Zambia and Uganda...