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...paper on street corners. One by one, police picked them up. But as arrests mounted, so did four-letter words in Avatar, reaching a culmination of a sort in a centerfold consisting of four familiar obscenities in yellow, 2½-in. type. Last month, Avatar staged a mass sellin at Harvard Square. Police arrested 23 salesmen on the spot. Last week a Cambridge district court convicted 17 of selling obscene material and imposed fines ranging from $100 to $300. It was the biggest court defeat handed Avatar to date. But the editors have no intention of toning the paper down...
...just sellin' orange juice," Kirk smiles ingenuously. "Sellin' orange juice, sellin' Kirk, sellin' Florida. People are payin' attention...
...shipped out on an oil tanker, worked in lumber camps, did a tour in the Marine Corps, worked as a sandalmaker, a delivery boy and as a carny huckster. "We were selling these ballpoint pens," he says, "and man, they were worth like 160 apiece. And we were sellin' them for a buck. It was a full scam...
...years, concluded that "there is no clear evidence of any influence of the death penalty on the homicide rates." In retorting to the arguments of law-enforcement authorities that the death penalty is needed to keep criminals from killing policemen, abolitionists point to the University of Pennsylvania Criminologist Thorsten Sellin's massive study of fatal attacks on policemen in some 260 Northern U.S. cities. By Sellin's mathematics, the rate of such attacks was slightly higher in death-penalty states than in abolition states...
Referring to the dry 'twenties, when "speak-easies" and "back-yard sellin'" were rampant, a man in the Harvard Provision said "At all times throughout history there has been some way of getting the stuff...