Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taxes." In surprisingly short order, Mayor Moyer has done just that. He has started a new, moneymaking transit system with five buses complete with carpeting and ste reo. He has arranged for welfare recipients to clean streets and plant shrubs, ivy and trees. He has encouraged the Neighborhood Youth Corps to patch up the old train station, thereby enabling Amtrak to reopen it for passenger ser vice a year ahead of schedule...
...deaths followed no particular pattern. Some appeared to be gang-related, some were committed in the course of robberies, some involved narcotics. All but a handful of the victims were blacks. One 17-year-old youth died after an argument over a piece of chicken, another over $10 in a dice game. A third teenager, who hoped some day to become a lawyer, was cut down a block from his home, the apparent victim of a young acquaintance with whom he had quarreled the day before. An 18-year-old was fatally shot by his sister after he threatened...
Died. Yekaterina A. Furtseva, 64, Soviet Minister of Culture; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Furtseva joined the youth branch of the Communist Party as a teen-age worker in a textile plant, then climbed through a series of party posts. Closely allied with Nikita Khrushchev, she became Minister of Culture in 1960 and the most powerful woman in the Soviet Union. As Culture Minister, "Baba Katya" (Grannie Kate) sponsored an upsurge of artistic exchange with the West, but shifted after Patron Khrushchev's ouster to a policy of harsh repression (notably against Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
East Cambridge residents interviewed this week believe that the youth was the victim of an unwarranted beating by four city police officers. They also believe police and city officials in the two years since Largey's death have done little to rectify a police-community relationship the residents consider "frustrating...
...body. This gives the narrative a Jekyll and Hyde format, with Myra eventually upstaging Myron, who every one thinks is a drag queen. Still unsatisfied by her escapades in Book I, Myra resumes her humiliation of men, inflict ing yet another hilarious outrage upon a strapping, redheaded youth out of the Van Johnson mold. She also undertakes to save Hollywood, armed with the fore-knowlege of its decline and Vidal's grasp of the industry's "future" profit-and-loss sheets. She even has a warning for Judy Garland: "Get off the pills...