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...before Lacerda was inside, one of the men ran toward them, ducked behind a car 15 feet away and began shooting a .45. The first two bullets hit the major, and he fell groaning to the sidewalk. The third nicked Lacerda's foot. Pushing his son into the apartment-house garage, Lacerda dropped down behind a wall and fired back with his own .38 pistol. The attacker fired a few last shots, then ran off into the night. Major Vaz died on the way to the hospital, his head in Carlos Lacerda...
Outside the Chicago Maternity Center, in the sweltering slums just south of the Loop, sidewalk vendors hawk their wares: secondhand suits, used razor blades, bottles of Dr. Pryor's Jinx Removing Bath Crystals. After dark, dope pushers, prostitutes and gangs of toughs prowl the soiled asphalt. Yet, unlike cops and truant officers, center staffers are seldom molested in the neighborhood. Even the hoods greet them on their rounds...
...taking its first step beams with self-conscious bravery; his old lady in a wicker chair, a sort of off-key Whistler's mother, is the essence of enduring patience. Even his cadaverous Skid Row figures, asleep amid prowling mongrels and a litter of old newspapers on a sidewalk, exhibit a kind of desperate valor. Says Smith: "They may be resigned, even despairing, but they're still trying to live...
...voters sent a Republican to the Senate), and Cooper gave it all he had. Once again he tried his Pulaski County handshaking technique. The system is simple: Cooper drives to the edge of a town, gets out at one end of Main Street and walks up one sidewalk and down the other, in and out of shops, greeting everyone he encounters with a handshake and a simple statement: "I'm John Cooper. You know me. I'm running for the Senate, and I want you to vote for me." If anyone wants to talk, John Sherman is only...
Citation: "Sidewalk superintendent of our times, voice of our conscience, literate exponent of the belief that humor ought to speak the truth." Paul Johannes Tillich, theologian...