Word: alert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...footnoted-various Reagan quotes along with the names of "Fright-Wing" cash contributors and such advisers as Schick Razor President Patrick J. Frawley and Henry Salvatori, co-chairman of Reagan's finance committee and executive committee, who has been closely affiliated with such way-right causes as Project Alert and the Anti-Communist Voters League...
Nevertheless, there is more evidence of cooperative community effort in Watts than might be expected, despite the fact that "There's no unity of Negro leadership" has become almost a cliche. One of the most dramatic results of cooperation is the Community Alert Patrol (CAP), a group of Watts residents who, in privately-owned cars with large black flags billowing from their aerials, watch for incidents of police brutality and try to handle situations which could lead to police action...
...mayor of Benton Harbor, Mich., a fruit-marketing center of 19,000, declared a state of emergency and 350 Michigan National Guardsmen were put on alert after two nights of violence followed the fatal shooting of a Negro youth by a white man. Negroes had been complaining about lack of recreational facilities and what they called the discourtesy of local police...
...Segal's creation, The Truck. It consisted of the actual cab of a red panel truck that Segal had found in a junkyard. Inside, the odometer read 85,723, the generator and oil-pressure gauges glowed red in the dashboard. In the driver's seat was an alert, life-size white plaster driver, both hands on the wheel, right foot hovering over the accelerator. As viewers looked over his shoulders at the windshield, they shared a Cineramic ride through city streets, as lights, cars and bright neon signs whizzed...
...ball, Lionel Aldridge recovered for Green Bay, and Packer Quarterback Bart Starr flipped an 11-yd. touchdown pass to End Boyd Dowler. After that, the only question was how big the score would be. Fullback Jim Taylor scored two TDs for the Packers, Starr threw for still another, and alert Green Bay defenders picked off two passes...