Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handcuffed Client. Grace's husband was shot in the back as he arrived at his slum home on Chicago's West Side one cold January night in 1960. It was a typically clueless crime: no gun was found; there were no witnesses. But 80% of all murders involve friends or relatives, and with no warrant the police nabbed Grace, Danny and two of his friends, Bobby Chan, 17, and Benny Di Gerlando, 18. While detectives questioned them for 14½ hours at the city's ugly grey police headquarters, Chan's mother got in touch with...
...look down At the slum backyards frothed over with snow And think of the boy with the octopus brain Floating pale and wavy through The murky waters of Schopenhauer While your mother wheedled by the hour...
Until Sorensen took over, Omaha had experienced four of the stormiest years in its political history. Under James J. Dworak, a bow-tied mortician before he became mayor in 1961, the city's pressing problems, from slum housing to rotting sewage pipes, were left to marinate in what the Omaha World-Herald called a "swamp of stagnation." Dworak's reign was marked instead by feuding with the police department, the mayor's indictment on charges of soliciting a $25,000 bribe (he was acquitted), an unsuccessful recall movement, and such ludicrous controversies as a hassle over...
...under 40 (Harold Wilson, at 50 the youngest P.M. of the century, is referred to as "good old 'arold") and come from the ranks of the British lower middle and working class, which never before could find room at the top. Says Sociologist Richard Hoggart, 47, himself a slum orphan from industrial Leeds: "A new group of people is emerging into society, creating a kind of classlessness and a verve which has not been seen before...
...Wyoming. In Massachusetts, the state's highest court has authorized law students to appear in lower courts and to defend indigents in cases involving less than 2½ years' imprisonment. At Boston University, law students now get classroom credit for courtroom practice in Roxbury, a predominantly Negro slum where 70% of defendants cannot afford lawyers. Lest a student prove unequal to his job, a veteran teacher-advocate is always on hand to rescue the client. Every law student needs such training, says B.U.'s Assistant Law Dean Robert L. Spangenberg. "The liberty of his future clients...