Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love its police; in Chicago the affair is on the rocks. Determined to persuade the city to put a second man in all patrolling squad cars and to eliminate lie detector tests for recruits, Chicago's finest started a "job action"; they festooned almost anything that moved with tickets. Even Mayor Richard Daley was outraged. When Alderman Vito Marzullo discovered a ticket on his Cadillac, he was driven to philosophical speculation: "Are they performing their duties now, or have they neglected their duties in the past...
Chicagoans wonder if ticket blitzing is the proper role for their men in blue, whatever their grievances. When handed a summons for speeding, though she claims she was doing no more than 10 m.p.h., a black woman cab driver fumed: "If they're mad at someone, why don't they go out and shoot hoodlums...
Before taking his timeout, McGovern campaigned more spontaneously than Nixon and occasionally suffered the consequences. In Brooklyn, he managed a pained chuckle when Democratic County Leader Meade Esposito promised to "support the Democratic ticket to the bitter end." Addressing labor leaders in Tacoma, Wash., McGovern called the area the "economic sore thumb" of the Nixon Administration. He promised a job for everyone, "though I can't spell this out line by line." The caution was advisable, since on his last visit to Washington he had pledged 25,000 new jobs if Boeing concentrated on building a quieter aircraft engine...
...good reason to be high on Ann Arbor, Mich. Last May the city council, led by two radical council members from the Human Rights Party, eased its already liberal marijuana law so that use or sale between friends would be punishable by a $5 fine. Offenders were issued a ticket payable in court, and even repeaters got off at $5 a head. Judged by the number of local arrests, the relaxed Ann Arbor rules did not increase the use of pot, and so last week the council voted to ease up still more. The amended ordinance will allow offenders...
Should McGovern falter, his presence on the ticket could hurt the heavily favored Studds...