Word: calle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Fadeaway? Beyond such diplomatic considerations, there was the question of what would happen militarily if the U.S. did call off its bombers. For weeks, the Communists had been scaling down the fighting, withdrawing some 40,000 front-line troops, mostly to sanctuaries on or near the borders of Cambodia and Laos. U.S. casualties dipped to 100 killed three weeks ago, the lowest level in 14 months; two weeks ago, the dead totaled 109, the second lowest...
...York City's Mayor John Lindsay calls Joseph Fink "my favorite hippie." The truth is, Fink is something of a square. He does not freak out, sport beads or let his hair hang to his collar. Instead, Fink wears the badge of a deputy inspector in the New York City Police Department. As head cop in the bohemian quarter of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Fink mans a little-known frontier of the law: preventive enforcement. At a time when young nonconformists tend to see cops as oppressors, call them pigs to their faces and even fling excrement...
...master's in public administration at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He talks to his men as if they too were in the classroom. "You can't go out there with the idea that hippies are a problem," he lectures his men at roll call. "You can't stand there with a stolid countenance. Don't wait for them to break the ice. You have to initiate the communication...
...wrath." Luce saw that day as a turning point for the nation, which was about to face the triumphs and trials of a world power, and for his publishing enterprise, which was to grow far beyond anything anticipated at the founding of TIME-the magazine that Luce used to call, rather proudly, "a rewrite sheet...
...issues, it was Nixon as usual. He seems at time almost to have convinced himself that he has taken a position on everything ("Call in a question, the tougher the better."). But the invariable "let me make one thing very clear" or "speaking frankly" did nothing to mask what a very mechanical process this question-and-answer business had become for the candidates by Monday night and how little interest for anyone it held...