Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Politically, policemen are usually conservative. The policeman, says Berkeley Criminologist Gordon Misner, "pictures himself as the crime fighter standing alone against the Mongol hordes, without the support of the public, the politicians or the courts. You don't often find a liberal in policing. And if you do, by the time he's been in a while-longer, he's going to be voting for Governor Wallace...
...they take a dim view of people living on welfare. Perhaps most irritating to cops are the white antiwar protesters, most of them collegians who have rejected advantages that policemen themselves lacked and toil to give their own children. "The police consider the beatniks spoiled darlings of society," says Berkeley Economist Margaret Gordon, who also serves on the city council. "Their rage and frustration at them can break out uncontrollably even in the historically well-disciplined and polite Berkeley police department." What most upset Chicago police during the Democratic Convention was obscenity from women and disrespect to the flag. When...
...date, suggests that civilian clothes with mere badges would bring policemen closer to their fellow citizens. According to Arnold Sagalyn, formerly a top Treasury Department lawman, police should quit being lonely adversaries and help tackle urban problems-thus preventing a good many crimes that now plague police. Berkeley Psychiatrist Bernard Diamond argues that police forces should also stop recruiting primarily tough men who can "shoot it out." As he sees it, the right model is a potential community-relations expert...
Burned-out Beam. While paying tribute to Lawrence's inventive genius and leadership, Davis details his failings, which were considerable. Although Stanley Livingston, graduate student at Berkeley, devised two of the beam-focusing techniques that enabled Lawrence to build the first of the big atom smashers, Lawrence failed to mention Livingston in his patent application and generally avoided crediting him for his work. When Livingston complained, Lawrence coldly suggested that if he felt dissatisfied he was free to drop out of the cyclotron project...
...became too suddenly a social activist, naively lending his support to Communist as well as liberal causes. By the time the U.S. entered World War II, however, Oppenheimer had become disenchanted with Communism. Called upon to head the Los Alamos atom-bomb laboratory after a brilliant teaching career at Berkeley, he turned to his new assignment with ferocious energy, wasting away to 116 Ibs., but performing what even his enemies admit was a "magnificent" job in producing a workable bomb...