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...date led to the indictment of 15 policemen. So far nine have been convicted and three acquitted, and three are awaiting trial. Seven more cops have been arrested, and two others have pleaded guilty to departmental misconduct charges. In addition, the local district attorney has created a special unit to prosecute police misconduct, the police department has strengthened a civilian complaint procedure, the state legislature and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission have announced hearings on the Philadelphia police. Last week Neumann and Marimow won this year's Pulitzer Prize gold medal for public service, the most prestigious...
...Reasoner by removing him from the Evening News and giving him no other on-air assignment, though Reasoner's $500,000-a-year contract does not expire until 1980. Reasoner wants to return to CBS, where he has been offered a job as head of its documentary unit. Whether or not Arledge will release Reasoner from his contract remains uncertain. Arledge says only that he is not happy with Reasoner's present role, and anyway wants to put less emphasis on personalities and more on journalism. Says Arledge: "To be frank, other networks have made stronger commitments...
Vacancy rates have seldom been lower in desirable parts of cities. Rents are double what they were at the start of the decade: $400-$750 for a one-bedroom unit on Manhattan's tony East Side, almost $300 in Miami and Los Angeles. Says Daniel Rose, chairman of the housing committee of the Real Estate Board of New York, where vacancies in Manhattan are running only 1½% to 2%: "We've never had such pressure." Declares Kathleen Connell, director of housing for the city of Los Angeles: "It has got to the point where if there...
More than a year in the planning, Illinois Masonic's alternative birthing center is a small, completely independent unit with two bedrooms, a nurses' station with rolltop desk, and a small lounge where family and friends can wait. Because no instruments or heavy drugs are used, only women who appear headed for normal births are admitted. But if there is trouble-for example, one woman's labor was unexpectedly difficult and required delivery by forceps and repair surgery-the patient can quickly be taken to the regular obstetrical unit only a few doors away. Not the least...
Back at Syracuse University in the early 1960s, Lou Reed was a platoon leader in the campus ROTC unit. He was already dabbling in extreme forms of social behavior and cultivating notoriety like a rare hothouse herb. He also wanted out of his military commitment. To make sure that the authorities would oblige, he recalls holding a gun to the head of his commanding officer. It wasn't loaded, but this was no time to take chances. Lou got the boot...