Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that the mayor has been making tours of the ghetto areas ever since his inauguration last January. Before last week's violence, he strode one evening among the crowds of East Harlem, played the bongo drums with a pickup front-stoop combo, was bear-hugged by a blind Negro, tried with unquenchable determination to tidy up the streets. Another day the mayor went into the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, plowed into an angry crowd that was clamoring menacingly for more schools, and wound up bobbing on men's shoulders above a cheering throng. Lindsay's tactics...
...admits few exceptions to its stern command that police get judge-signed warrants before searching private homes. When police arrest a suspected felon in a private place, for example, they can then search the immediate premises without a warrant. But they cannot first search hundreds of homes in a blind effort to find him. In short, they must have a warrant to enter a private home unless they have "probable cause" to believe that the suspect is already there...
...another investigation reported last week, the "double-blind" technique proved to be a needless precaution. The superiority of the medicine being tested was so apparent that the researchers soon dropped the placebo...
...psychosis. He divided his 24 patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Albany into two equal groups and gave half of them Cylert for the first week while the other half got an identical-looking placebo (sugar pill). Neither doctors nor nurses knew which was which in this "double-blind" study. The drug and placebo groups were switched for the second week...
...week tour de force in Paris earlier this year, Boulez again conducted Wozzeck, helped to produce three Stravinsky ballets, gave eight concerts, performed on TV, and recorded an opera and two orchestral pieces. The French critics treated his visitations with a mixture of adulation and almost blind acceptance and the Paris musicians' union named him honorary president. Things were going swimmingly. There was even some hope that Boulez might relent and return to Paris for good...