June 12, 1999

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An index of this week's stories:

PROFILING CON'T - NPR's Phillip Martin reports on accusations of racial profiling -- the practice of police stopping motorists based on their race -- in New Jersey. Officials there say they have warned officers not to engage in the practice, but some maintain that police are only doing their job based on the best evidence they have. Others argue that the high number of drug arrests is not an accurate measure of who is actually using drugs. 6:13

DIANE SCHURR - Acclaimed jazz singer Diane Schurr plays and sings for Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon. 14:20

D-B DRAG RACING - NPR producer Rolando Arrieta visited a D-B drag race in Rockville, Maryland, where two cars line up side by side, and try to out-blast each other with their stereos booming. 3:39

LOST AND FOUND SOUND: CIGAR STORIES - Actor Andy Garcia narrates a story about the "readers" who made life in cigar factories tolerable. This piece tells the story of the men who were paid to read aloud to men and women rolling cigars in Tampa and Ybor City, Florida, at the beginning of the century and into the 30's. These "Lectors" would read from classics, revolutionary tracts and labor union magazines to keep the worker's informed and amused. LOST AND FOUND SOUND learned about this profession as the result of a phone call to its QUEST FOR SOUND line (202-408-0300) from a man in Florida who had 78 r.p.m. records of his father, who was a Lector.



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