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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part because of the gun-toting tradition and a sense that honor dictates that real or imagined wrongs must be redressed. But up North, the combined rate of violent crimes (murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery) is still greater than that of the South. Almost everywhere, people can walk the Dixie streets without having to fear muggings or purse snatchings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: The Spirit of The South | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...when parents from Southie, Eastie, Hyde Park and Charlestown hold a summit conference to discuss how to undermine the uppity "niggers" and, increasingly, "spics", are they also kicking each other under the table? Why, for example, does a once outspoken liberal like Mayor Kevin White have to uncommittedly walk a tightrope on the busing issue, protecting himself with a net of double-talking and triple-talking aides below? Why, in the city of the Adamses and co. is the City Council filled with the likes of Hicks and anti-everything councilman Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, a man who openly brags...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...adds, "rent control has ruined the Square and the City. Just walk up and down side streets around here, and all you'll see will be For Sale signs...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: There's more to Cambridge than Harvard Square | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...felt a lot more crime problems when I was in Harvard Square," he adds. "My wife couldn't even walk around there without running into a flasher...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: There's more to Cambridge than Harvard Square | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...tells how she once shooed the security men out of George's hospital room as he recuperated; she locked the door "and returned to the arms of my waiting husband." Afterward, "his wheelchair had a new wiggle in its roll-and I had a new bounce in my walk." She fondly recalls the day when George "told me how very much he loved me and that he couldn't have made it without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: The Wallace Tapes | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

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