Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STATION on 100th street is a Clark station. Clark only sells premium gas. But then Dave Rysky always went first class. It is located in a working class Catholic area where Polish fathers like Dave's wake up at six for the day shift in the steel mills, only to swing 3-11 next week and nights the week after; still swinging after twenty-five years on the job. Dave doesn't see his father much. It's a mostly Polish and Eastern European neighborhood of second and third generation, with a few Irish and Italians and a Mexican contingent...
...three were among those convicted. In a trial of three flic-bordello operators last week, one investigating policeman maintained that the nightclub Escuries du Roy (stables of the king) was actually a whorehouse-allegedly the most fashionable and expensive in Lyon-protected by Charret and Tonnot. In the wake of the disclosure Charret was forced to resign from the Gaullist party but announced his intention to run for re-election as an independent...
Richard Speck, the half-mad drifter who murdered eight student nurses in Chicago, was sentenced to death five years ago, but in the wake of Supreme Court rulings against capital punishment, he cannot be executed. His odd prediction: "As sure as having Jesus Christ on one side and the devil on the other, and a wheelbarrow filled with four or five million dollars in the middle, I'm going to get 500 to 1,000 years." Judge Richard J. Fitzgerald went even further. He imposed a sentence of 50 to 150 years for each murder, consecutively, a total...
...problem seems to be stubborn residual racism among the Navy's "middle management." All too frequently, Zumwalt's pleas for equality have fallen on deaf ears, from skippers all the way down to petty officers. Addressing a flotilla of admirals and generals at the Pentagon in the wake of the three outbreaks, Zumwalt pulled no punches in blaming his subordinates. "Uncomprehending response or response which lacks commitment from the heart-no matter how correct-is essentially obstructionist," said the Chief of Naval Operations. "Just as obstructionist is a man who puts an order in a drawer and forgets...
Quincy House gridders tangle with Yale's Berkeley College eleven in championship tackle football action here this afternoon in the wake of protest lodged yesterday by the Eliot House football team...