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There is no small amount of absurdity in a policeman's life. At 10:39 p.m., we got a call in the Savin Hill area of Dorchester. A woman had reported hearing a burglar inside her building, and as we pulled up in front of the dilapidated three-story apartment house, flashing the spotlight against its facade, our stomachs knotted in tension...
Like I Was Savin' is a collection of one hundred of Mike Royko's best columns from 1966 to 1984. It is organized into four sections corresponding to the four different Chicago newspapers he wrote for in that time...
...exceptional woman was forced to assert herself against all the odds. Annual pregnancy was the general rule; contraceptives were not widely introduced until the 18th century. Until then, couples relied on recipes−marjoram, "thyme, parsley, the juice of the herb savin−that did little good. A study of aristocratic women suggests that 45% died before 50, one-quarter of those in childbirth. If perpetual pregnancy did not do a woman in, smallpox well might. Life expectancy was 35. If a 17th century woman should survive to old age, she was in danger of being taken for a witch...
...atavistic behavior of a small Southern town should keep in mind the murder of 30-year-old William Atkinson in Boston last spring. Atkinson, a maintenance worker, was with a friend when the two were attacked by a gang of bottle-throwing white men, who chased Atkinson into the Savin Hill T station. As he fled down the tracks in terror, Atkinson was struck and killed by an oncoming train...
...Savin Hill, where White garnered only 39 per cent of the vote last election, he piled up 55 per cent of the ballots. H gained 10 percentage points in con- servative areas of Hyde Park and did better than ever before in Neponset and West Roxbury...