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Fifty-one days later, defense attorney William P. Homans Jr. '41 was rocking nervously on his haunches in a back corridor adjacent to the drab courtroom where for the past six weeks he and the prosecutor had argued over Edelin's guilt or innocence...
...Wednesday night of last week. Businessmen who work in the gleaming new office towers near by hurried home along the Harbor Freeway. Frightened winos and derelicts crowded the dilapidated missions or dozed uneasily on hardwood chairs in the shelter of neighborhood chapels. Liquor sales were off, and the drab streets, lined with pawnshops, surplus-clothing stores and aging apartment hotels, were uncommonly empty. In the past eight weeks, seven middle-aged men, most of them down-and-outers, had been found in doorways, alleyways and cheap hotel rooms within the l-sq.-mi. Skid Row area, their throats slit deeply...
Room 906 of the Superior Court is a drab, lofty-ceilinged room constructed with a kind of austere efficiency, doing away with the symbolic bar which might have dignified counsel, but fastidiously erecting pontifical stations for the court officers, where the gavel-equipped crew has achieved a sort of porcine grandeur. The only gothic element of the courtroom consists in long and severe, slit-like windows. The wind is forever howling among the tall buildings that hold up Government Center, but it is hardly a tragic sound, and occasionally, when the beefy officer with the jowls like the Verrazanno Bridge...
...medicine and housing, cost next to nothing and, to the envy of the rest of the world, have not increased in price in 20 years; yet "luxury" items, such as bicycles or radios, can soak up months of savings. The average urban worker is likely to: live in a drab, two-room unit in a massive, slate-gray apartment complex; work a 48-hour week; spend his Sunday picnicking in one of China's shady parks; pass his evenings in a workers' cultural palace watching a variety show (full of revolutionary songs and skits), learning a musical instrument...
...past few years have been dull for leg watchers, frustrated by loose slacks and droopy skirts that conceal only drab gray and blah beige pantyhose. Suddenly, however, legs are coming alive in the dazzling burst of colors, stripes and patterns that characterizes the new socko look...