Word: ghettos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short time, Newton seemed to embody the spirit of ghetto uplift that the Panthers preached. After serving time in a celebrated case involving the shooting of an Oakland policeman, he earned a doctorate from the University of California. But after J. Edgar Hoover's FBI targeted the group, many of his fellow Panther leaders were killed, jailed or driven underground, and Newton's life returned to its meaner roots. Charges of murder and assault led to conviction for possessing a gun. There followed a string of drug offenses, drunk driving and embezzling $15,000 from a Panther-operated school...
While the chains have been redesigning rooms and retraining staff to keep up with women's demands, the entrenched London bastions are unconcerned. "I don't believe there should be separate quarters for the ladies, like some female ghetto," says Giles Shepard, managing director of the Savoy group of hotels. "It is women who are made to feel more uncomfortable when a lot of special arrangements are made for them." Many businesswomen would agree -- so long as simple courtesy, convenience and safety are not viewed as "special arrangements...
...nearly two years, policeman David A. Magnusson, 27, has patrolled Miami's black Overtown ghetto, where rioting broke out last winter after the shooting of a black motorcyclist by a Hispanic officer. He is a police representative on the panel that is investigating that outburst...
...program in the Texas Air National Guard qualified him in F-102 interceptors. Lieut. Bush signed up for a program that rotated Guard pilots to Viet Nam, but he wasn't called. Instead he held short-term jobs, including a stint at Pull for Youth, a Houston program serving ghetto youngsters. "I wasn't interested in taking root," he says. "I was having fun." Once, with Marvin as company, he decided to take a few of the Pull for Youth kids on a plane ride. One of them became abusive and refused to be hushed. So George used a simple...
Legal gambling also prompts more illegal wagering. It was once thought that lotteries and other state-run betting ventures would pull money away from ghetto numbers games, horse parlors operating behind candy-store fronts and the like. But the illegal games usually flourish alongside the legal ones and sometimes even piggyback on them. One example: since the Illinois lottery began daily drawings, Chicago numbers operators have adopted the state's winning number as the winning number in their own daily drawings. Since the state number is regularly aired on television, the numbers runners are saved the trouble of calculating...