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...three years ago for X-rated movies, porn shops and other facets of the skin trade-in hopes of being able to contain them. But over the past year, violence has followed the vice: a Harvard football player was fatally stabbed, an exotic dancer was strangled, and a brisk trade in guns sprang up. Looking for ways to curb the rough stuff without closing the zone down, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) has devised a strategy based on a reversal of Gresham's law: a theory that good will drive out bad. The planners have announced a ten-year...
...North Dakota's Republican Governor William Langer was removed from office in 1934, following conviction for soliciting political contributions from federal employees. The conviction was overturned in 1935. In 1924 Indiana's Republican Governor Warren McCray received a ten-year prison sentence for misuse of the mails in his personal financial transactions; he was pardoned by President Hoover after serving three years...
...Bell quickly arranged a clandestine rendezvous with Johnson last week in the dining room at the Newnan, Ga., Holiday Inn. "Nobody recognized either one of us," chortles Bell. At the end of the two-hour meeting, Bell went away convinced that Johnson was prepared to serve for the full ten-year term established by Congress last year...
...energy, the arms race (the neutron bomb), the environment, the economy, unemployment and the urban underclass all lie in wait for anyone who approaches the future complacently. It would of course be difficult for history to duplicate the long, wild hallucination of the '60s. But Rahv's ten-year rule applies to historical pauses as well as upheavals. The cycle will surely come around again...
Then, in March 1975, a gangster named Louis Almeida was arrested for carrying weapons equipped with silencers and received a ten-year sentence. In exchange for the chance of getting an early parole, judicial immunity and protection, Almeida agreed to testify about past crimes. One was the murder of William Logan. Almeida told the police he had driven Aleman to Logan's home. Officials surmised that Aleman was after Logan because the Teamster had refused to help steal truck cargoes...