Word: calle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some fathers would have walked away In what they call a fugue today. But he left no one in the lurch And played the stuff he wrote in church. RICHARD H. WANGERIN President American Symphony Orchestra
...March 31, the tide of opposition to his policies and personality led Lyndon Johnson to renounce another term as President and call for a partial bombing halt over North Viet Nam. On October 31, President Johnson ordered a total suspension of aerial attacks on the North. Yet by year's end the haggling still droned on in Paris, and the bloodshed continued on the battlefields...
Each group is preparing to offer conflicting advice to the new President. "Within a few weeks," an official predicts, "there is going to be one hell of a battle." At stake in what some observers call the War for Nixon's Ear is the direction the President-elect will take in his search for peace...
Boston police call the catnap habit "holing," and one of their favorite holing places is near a laundry, where several cruisers filled with slumbering cops were spotted a few weeks ago. Atlanta cops have been known to seek out "pits," usually in lovers' lanes or in a tunnel beneath the city. Los Angeles policemen are occasionally caught dozing on a jail pallet or in a patrol car. Just last week two Chicago patrolmen were suspended briefly for sleeping while on duty. In Washington, where the custom is known as "huddling," many a drowsy cop is awakened only when headquarters...
Slouched Inside. In New York City, large numbers of policemen seem to have the sleeping-on-duty habit, which they call "cooping." Last week quite a few of them were caught in the coop by New York Times Reporter David Burnham, who cruised the streets in the early morning seeking their hideaways. He found police cruisers on back streets, under bridges and in parks-all with their occupants slouched inside. Some of them even took pillows and alarm clocks with them when they went out on patrol. One sergeant, who used to be in charge of a slum neighborhood recalled...