Word: overcrowdedness
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If ever a horse race was up for grabs, it was the 1971 Kentucky Derby. Hoist The Flag, the heavy winter book favorite, shattered a leg a month before the big race. At least five other top contenders-His Majesty, Droll Role, Executioner, Run The Gantlet. Salem-dropped out because...
DON'T SHOOT-We Are Your Children! Its title threatens to give the book away. Its Random House imprint and overlarge type lend weight to the suspicion. So the temptation is simply to abandon the volume, to file it away on the already overcrowded shelf of revolutionary beiles-lettres, to...
Rumors spread that the Federal Government, through FHA-insured loans, was going to turn the town into a haven for poor blacks. Opponents of the project raised fears of overcrowded schools and crime on the poorly lit streets. In March of 1970, "improvement associations" in the Black Jack area invited...
Nixon listed the problems of ramshackle judicial machinery: unconscionable delays in criminal cases, overcrowded prisons, court calendars clogged with trivial cases. "All this," he said, "sends everyone in the system of justice home at night feeling as if they have been trying to brush back a flood with a broom...
Despite its problems, East Orange has quite a bit going for it. It is compact, if overcrowded. Unlike neighboring Newark, it has a history of capable, efficient government. It has a stable white and black middle class. There are some extreme views on both sides of the racial fence, but...