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...dead bodies of Tyrone Sinkler and Ian Moore, as well as the unsalvageable life of young Khalil Sumpter, the 15-year-old "gunman," testify to the fact that ghetto violence and ghetto frustrations are no longer confined to the streets. No longer can we assume that kids leave their problems at the wire fence entrance to the schoolhouse...
...such tactics some clinics are able to return as many as 65% of back sufferers to productive, if not pain-free, lives. Robert Sumpter, 45, of Modesto, Calif., sought out Hosobuchi after four back operations and a bout with the bone infection osteo myelitis that left him in such great pain that he required constant medication with narcotics. At first, Sumpter had to use the transmitter four times a day. Now he resorts to it only once daily. He also has resumed a life-style that he had totally abandoned because of his addiction. Says he, with undisguised relief...
...were disturbed because he had proposed lower price supports than a more generous Congress decided they merited. (At his press conference Carter expressed sympathy for the plight of many farmers but said that he would not have participated in their strike if he were still working the land in Sumpter County, Ga.) Labor was miffed because he did not put up protectionist walls against imports, and wanted him to endorse a larger increase in the minimum wage. Many women were antagonized by his opposition to federally paid abortions for the poor. Blacks and big-city mayors were upset that...
...POLICE GAZETTE Edited by Gene Smith and Jayne Barry Smith. 208 pages. Simon & Schuster. $12.50. A collection of articles and illustrations from the granddaddy of all schlock journalism. The Gazette, which began publication in 1846, was unequaled for its sensationalism ("The foolish son of Colonel Sumpter, a wealthy politician of Hot Springs, Ark., marries a member of the St. Louis, Mo., demi-monde") and bigotry ("Sheeny Abortionist Beast Trapped by Brave Beauty"). Yet it nevertheless recorded the rapacity, brutality and savage energy of the Gilded...
...keep up with the Joneses nowadays," says Manufacturer Sumpter Turner happily, "you have to raise your own tomatoes in January-as well as have plenty of orchids." But there is much more to it than green-thumb-upmanship. There is the satisfaction of growing or propagating plants for the outdoor garden instead of buying them, of cutting a spray of forsythia in midwinter and "forcing" it into a golden harbinger of spring, of watching a child's pride in his own waist-high plantation, and, not least, of dropping into a city florist's from time to time...