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...Abandonment here means that a majority of children say their father does not live at home. And abandonment is the insularity of inferior government services, of political impotence, of being a football in organized charity's fights with the city of Cambridge, of living in The Elms, roughest, poorest, dirtiest most hopeless blocks in the city...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Washington Elms | 5/31/1961 | See Source »

FILTHY LUCRE is on its way out in France. The Bank of France, finding that banknotes are among the "dirtiest" objects known, started printing francs on a disinfectant paper "guaranteed" to make germs harmless as long as the notes are in circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock: Mar. 3, 1961 | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...participants in the rally were judges, attorneys, and messenger boys, not too happy about the 35-degree cold and giving up their lunch-hours, but full of Democratic jocularity. "Attaboy, Julius," somebody cried as Julius Ansel, State Representative from the 14th Ward, got up to speak. "The dirtiest approach ever," he called Volpe's tactics. "He advocates closing the Boston Hospital while he sits in his mansion in Winchester, enjoying his wealth. SHAME on that man." As for Volpe's allegations concerning Ward, he had only to say, "There sit Ward's seven daughters at home; how do you think...

Author: By Honey Fitzgerald, | Title: The Morning After | 11/9/1960 | See Source »

...campaign will proceed as expected. It is likely to be one of the dirtiest in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Sep. 26, 1960 | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

World War II, when it flung up flimsy barracks for Southern Negro defense workers. Today nearly half the population is on relief. Narcotics, robbery and corruption are common. Last winter Police Chief William Ware stole a Christ mas fund for underprivileged children. Township Supervisor Elwood Dickens' saloon, the dirtiest in town, is a hangout for minors. Royal Oak Township's rapes, burglaries and arson cases go uninvestigated. The township treasury has an unexplained shortage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Unwanted | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

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