Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon "drift into a world of dark hopelessness." In Minneapolis, so-called "City of Hope," there are 8,000 Indians, but few employers will hire them. Jammed into rickety tenements and Skid Row hovels, said Rowan, most of them are doomed to lives that nourish "every stereotype about 'drunk,' 'dirty,' 'irresponsible' Indians...
...Spree Waters. In Farmington, N.Mex., Paul Schoolboy Nez, a 65-year-old Navajo, was fined $20 after a state trooper testified that Nez was "drunk on horseback after dark, no lamps displayed; was thrown from horse to center of traffic lane where he went to sleep...
...Master's Vice. In Indianapolis, Mallory Hinson was jailed for drunk driving after he refused to take a drunkometer test, confidentially advised cops to test his dog instead, explained that the dog, not he, had been piloting...
Wind & the Wallows. In Washington, D.C., the judge dismissed a drunk charge against William Thompson after learning what made him walk with a list: "The wind was blowing awfully hard and I only weigh 119 pounds...
...chiggers beneath the skins of network bigwigs and Madison Avenue operatives is the custom of the free plug, or "plugola." A TV comic, disk jockey or M.C. slips a brand name into his patter, e.g., "They said I was drunk, but it was all relative-Old Grand-Dad," and he or his gagwriter can count on the "payola"-a case or two of whisky in the next delivery. Offenses have occurred most persistently on the Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Arthur Godfrey, Steve Allen and Robert Q. Lewis shows; yet the networks fear to order their stars to stop the practice...