Word: assist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Each of the agents had duty assignments beginning no later than 8 a.m. that morning. In Dallas, one of the nine agents was assigned to assist in security measures at Love Field, and four had protective assignments at the Trade Mart. The remaining four had key responsibilities as members of the complement of the followup car in the motorcade [the car behind the President's]. Three of these agents occupied positions on the running boards of the car, and the fourth was seated...
...assist them, the Commission members named as their chief counsel James Lee Rankin, 57, a top Manhattan attorney who had been President Eisenhower's Solicitor General, carried the Government's argument in the 1953 school-desegregation cases and the Little Rock high school case. Rankin recruited a staff of 14 outstanding private lawyers and law professors. All 56 field offices of the FBI lent their help. So did the CIA, the Secret Service, the State Department, the Immigration and Naturalization Service?and even the Soviet government, which sent in sketchy reports of Oswald's 32-month stay in Russia...
...Walter Brennan as a board chairman. Both the show and the corporation obviously float on his style alone. Last week, on a bet, he went out to prove that he could start over again with $10 and captain a new industry in no time. He did, with a clanking assist from the script. But what he owed the writers was nothing beside what they owed him. He even scored with an old one-liner about banks: "Never trust a place where they pull the shades down at three o'clock in the afternoon...
...Pitzer College in Southern California joins the five other independent schools allied in the Associated Colleges of Claremont. Privately endowed by Citrus Grower R. K. Pitzer, the college aims to educate women for the traditional professions, with an assist from modern electronic teaching aids. "Rather than let these girls be handicapped by watered-down versions of courses offered to men," says a Pitzer trustee, "we will let them know the cold-and the warm-facts of life...
...pull the woman, Mrs. Odessa Bradford, 34, out of the driver's seat. She kicked and punched them. A crowd of Negroes began to gather. Negro James Nettles, 41, jumped the officers from behind. One cop reached the police car radio, shouted two words into the mike: "Assist officer." That brought every available cruiser in the area. Nettles and Mrs. Bradford were led into a police wagon-but the riot...