Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police Chief Zelma Wyche of sultry, deep-Delta Tallulah, La., looks and acts the archetypal Southern cop. There is the ample belly hanging over the gun belt as the massive, 6-ft. 2-in. figure swaggers down the sidewalk. There is the natty uniform with gold stars on a white starched shirt, a button open at the neck. And there is the amiable cockiness, the touch of braggadocio, the blunt cigar and the smile revealing two gold-crowned teeth. Only one anomaly destroys the stereotype: Chief Wyche is black...
...Coney Island's Mermaid Avenue, New York City police break up a thriving sidewalk traffic in heroin. The pushers: three boys, aged 15, 13 and 11, whose sales averaged $900 a week. The daughter of a Manhattan psychiatrist, located at the far end of a drug spree, boasts to newsmen: "I take hash, pot, LSD, heroin, speed-anything I can get." She is twelve. In Hollywood, a boy of eleven who has been pushing "ups" (amphetamine and methedrine pills) and "downs" (barbiturates, tranquilizers) since he was nine, is found out by his parents and locked in his bedroom. Through...
...sidewalk was getting too cold for card games, and we abandoned that pastime in favor of more rigorous activities. Some people were doing calisthenics. Free coffee was being passed out by an anonymous benefactor. I offered my treasured cookies to our card-playing friends, and Dave and I relaxed. We had illegally made our way into line without a major conflict...
...traded addresses and I wanted to pay for his meal, but he did and I left to catch a ride back to the snowy mountains South of the City and on the sidewalk I had already written him my first letter which went "Dear Seth, what are you doing in Salt Lake City in a narrow hotel, you who introduced Alpine skiing to the area and culture to the Utah Cafe. Why don't you at least go to Chicago where they have Niggers and Adams and Eves without clothes. Yours...
...Henri Perrin, 27 year-old semi-successful rive gauche painter, draws in chalk on the sidewalk of the Boulevard Saint Michel that he will fast until all the killing is stopped...