Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effects on the city as the war of the streets. Kennedy's use-force orders draw cries of protest from social scientists. They point to increasing arrest rates in the 14 heavily policed high-hazard slum areas, where social agencies thought they had made headway with a gentler approach toward juveniles. And they vehemently disapprove of Kennedy's decision on the proper function of the police department's Juvenile Aid Bureau...
Street-roaming delinquents might not have been listening this week, but the kids saw and heard the physical translation. The gentle police approach was gone; "headbeaters" (cops) were on watch everywhere. And behind the men and women in the deep blue uniforms stood the toughest cop of all, keenly aware that the responsibility for keeping the peace was his, positive that his approach to juvenile delinquency was the proper one for a policeman-especially since the other approaches had not solved the problem. For New York's fisty finest, Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy had a last basic police order...
...today's city streets-half-deserted at night to television-tarts chat cheerfully about their business to the Army's midnight patrol. Illegitimacy, in the words of one commissioner, "isn't even a tragedy, much less a social stigma." So few derelicts approach the Army's mercy seat these days that the shuffle of one man toward salvation at a recent London meeting has been the talk of the Army ever since. And the welfare state, with its complex of psychiatric and rehabilitation centers, prompts the downtrodden to turn to government instead of God. Said General...
...operation by July 1959, yet only 27 have been ordered and only one is in operation. The plan calls for 138 surveillance radars for close-in airport traffic control; only 45 are in operation now; another 16 are programed for early 1960. The plan also includes 23 precision-approach radars (ten now operating), 289 traffic-control radar beacons (none operating), 677 omnidirection radio units (VOR), 573 short-range navigation units (VORTAC), 235 instrument-landing systems and another 69 airport control towers...
...Advertising is a marvelous field for women. They have a warm personal approach and a concern for things that is very valuable. And there is certainly no gender in ideas." The speaker, not surprisingly, was a woman: Margot Sherman, 48, vice president of Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., named last week, by the Advertising Federation of America, as Advertising Woman of the Year...