Word: squalidity
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Died. Elmer Francis ("Trigger") Burke, 40, scrawny gangland executioner, suspected of at least seven murders, convicted (Dec. 16, 1955) of one (his boyhood friend, Longshoreman Edward Walsh, in a 1952 barroom quarrel); by electrocution; in Sing Sing prison. Born in Manhattan's squalid Hell's Kitchen, Killer Burke served his first stretch in 1941 (for breaking and entering), soldiered with the U.S. Army Rangers in the Normandy invasion, afterwards settled down as a dock-front gunman, kept on a $300-per-month retainer by New York gangster brass. In 1954 Burke was hired to machine gun Joseph ("Specs...
...students in Paris, about 39,000 either find rooms at the university or live at home. But the rest must find squalid attic rooms, often without running water and usually with an exorbitant rent of as much as $80 a month. "Many students," says Secretary Jacques Bertherat of the students' federation, "are forced to do their reading and writing in cafés and bistros, which at least provide some warmth during the winter months...
...camera, once so skillfully used in the "art" film to delineate character and expression in a drama of everyday people, uses here only squalid scenery and degenerate characters for the dramatic value of the shock they may still contain. If the dialogue is as bad as the subtitles, it is bad indeed. The acting is barely competent; also quite stock are the devices of Director Marcel Blistene...
First stop was before the four dramatic new buildings replacing the squalid hodgepodge of the capital's old Lagunilla Market. Starting strong, Ruiz Cortines came smiling through a confetti shower, visited each of the buildings, with a mariachi band blaring along behind. The President took a quick look at three other markets, sped through the city to dedicate a four-lane freeway crossing the city, flitted through the gleaming new laboratories of police headquarters, took an approving brief glance at the new dormitories and gymnasium of the fire-department annex, popped over to the new penitentiary...
...particularly on paydays, relieving him of his wallet and sometimes pushing him clean off the train if he resists. Even in the darkness of the stations and the roads near by, the Tsotsis wait to attack the worker as he races, blind with fear, from the station to his squalid home. Tsotsism is a problem older than the Boer government's apartheid policy, but apartheid has aggravated...