Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin with, each candidate is asked to write a brief autobiography specifically aimed at revealing emotional instability. He then takes a psychological sentence-completion test and an exam known as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. If his responses raise any doubts about him, the candidate must go before a board of three psychiatrists. About 40% of the applicants each year are rejected because of either the psychological tests or a past record of instability turned up in a background check. At the police academy, the new recruit takes the California Test of Mental Maturity, the Watson-Glaser Judgmental Test...
...question that arises from many of Cohen's poems is: Where can a radically enlightened individual invest his passion and get a steady and satisfying return? Revolutionary politics has its possibilities but, as Cohen notes in his poem Kerensky, the vision of revolution is all too brief. Cohen's own experiences in this area include a disappointing 1961 adventure in Cuba as a would-be volunteer for Castro just before the Bay of Pigs invasion...
...brig at Danang, who rioted briefly three weeks ago. They had complained of cold food, excessive discipline, and long delays before trial. When the brig commander, Lieut. Colonel Joseph Gambardella, promised to look into their complaints, they calmed down and cleared up their cell block; and except for a brief flare-up when 40 parolees and trusties were moved out, that was the end of it. The prisoners at L.B.J. must face a harsher punishment. Since the administration building and its files were burned, the men will have to sweat it out in the stockade regardless of their original sentences...
...virgin and I need your help." He coached Actress Woodward-his wife-in whispers and in a sort of private language. He had the camera dwell on her lovingly, so much so that one friend described the movie as Newman's "wallet." As a result, he infects the brief love affair with a tenuousness that everyone but Rachel can detect, and infuses the air of the small town with a palpable melancholy and unquiet desperation...
Parade of Charades. When Justice antitrusters aired that view last April in a formal brief presented to the SEC, the regulatory authority had no choice but to delve into an issue that Wall Street thought had long since been settled by the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act. Hoping to bolster its stand against entirely abolishing fixed rates, the exchange this month offered instead to cut them by an average 19.5% on big deals (1,000 shares or more). That was primarily a defensive tactic, partly impelled by SEC proposals for slightly sharper fee reductions, starting with deals involving 400 shares...