Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cherished legislative program, as well as his top domestic troubleshooter, handling the Northeast's power blackout in 1965 and the threatened steel strike the same year. Rumpled and slightly roly-poly, Califano has had to overcome some handicaps. For one thing, he was born closer to Brownsville, Brooklyn, than Brownsville, Texas. For another, while he is hardly a yes man, he is still too much in awe of his explosive boss to be a genuinely effective no man, as Moyers could...
Having gone that far, the court then proceeded to go another step farther. In a related decision, it held that Brooklyn Lawyer Samuel Spevack could not be disbarred for having exercised his right to be silent in an ambulance-chasing investigation. Did all this mean that public employees under investigation could henceforth keep quiet without risking their jobs? Not quite. Though he was part of the one-vote majority in both cases, Justice Abe Fortas took pains to point out in a concurring Spevack opinion that a lawyer is not an employee of the state and therefore has no responsibilities...
...endure such other names as "blisterheads" and "bubbleheads." But names can never hurt them. So effective are the scootermounted cops that after the first nine putt-putts had been issued to park patrolmen in 1964, muggings dropped by 30% in Manhattan's Central Park, by 40% in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The lesson was not lost; four high-crime precincts were then quickly scooterized. In a recent two-month period, those areas reported the fewest crimes in New York...
...fellow who does this happy bit of humanizing for Bobby is Bill Minkin, 25, a Brooklyn College television instructor. Neither he nor his three collaborators plan to quit their jobs to go into full-time comedy cutting; but they have a little cushion to sit on. In three weeks, the record has sold 450,000 copies and become one of the hottest singles of the new year...
...which grew big by making little nothings (transistors and integrated circuits), owes much of its $580 million-a-year success to John Erik Jonsson, 65, who assembled the corporate team that converted the old Geophysical Service Inc. to electronics after World War II. Last week, having reached retirement age, Brooklyn-born Jonsson stepped down as board chairman. His successor: Patrick Eugene Haggerty, 52, who as vice president and then president during the firm's remarkable growth matched Jonsson's financial know-how with his own expertise in electrical engineering. Haggerty will stay on as chief executive officer...