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Askew argues that no matter how the gambling law is written, it will attract organized crime, drugs and prostitution "like blood attracts sharks." Agrees Dade County Sheriff E. Wilson Purdy: "Organized crime is south Florida's biggest growth industry. They're all over the place now. Casinos would be a major step toward a complete mob takeover." Adds former Miami Beach Mayor Jay Dermer. "The hotel people have it all backward. They must first fix up their places...
Born in Minnesota, Hanson studied sculpture with Carl Milles at Cranbrook Academy, then went to Germany where he worked in stone, wood and clay. He returned to the U.S. in 1960, settling in Florida in 1965 and teaching at the Miami-Dade Community College. Also in the mid-'60s, inspired by George Segal's white plaster casts of live models, Hanson developed his own more lifelike figures and more dramatic tableaux."I think I must be a romantic," he says. "But we have to deal with the harsh reality of our industrial society. I'm interested...
...schools from Memphis to Los Angeles are adopting similar methods-as well as closed-circuit TVs, guards, emergency phones in the classrooms-to combat a violence that was once undreamed of. Last year alone, Memphis reported 680 assaults, 144 of them directed against teachers or administrators. Miami's Dade County registered a shocking 1,153 attacks, and in Boston schools there were 155 assaults on teachers alone. In high-crime New York City, students erupted in 2,420 attacks, half of them against teachers. In Chicago the assault rate is running at five to six cases...
Once a matter of shoving or fistfights, assaults today often result in bloodshed and even death. Last September an eighth-grader in Dade County's Westview Junior High died after a classmate smashed his face with a padlock during a lunchtime brawl. Just two weeks ago a 15-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in the chest at John Adams High School, in the Queens section of New York City, while his screaming girlfriend watched helplessly. On Dec. 5, a Los Angeles high school gang stabbed one victim and beat a second with a heavy belt buckle. Attacks against...