Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Critics charge that the department's impersonality is reinforced by its own pecking order. Since the front-line patrol-car force has the lowest status, it tends to consist of men who have failed promotion or who have been demoted. Rookies learn that the way out of the car is to write more traffic tickets and exceed their informal quotas (based on anticipated crime) in making "field interrogations" and misdemeanor arrests. Civil rights leaders argue that police sometimes overexercise their discretionary powers by hitting minority groups for marginal offenses. In slum areas, critics claim, such zeal is often self...
Sensor and Instant Lawyers. Chief Reddin is full of ideas, such as incentive pay to raise patrol-force status and keep good men in prowl cars. He wastes no time blaming the Supreme Court for "handcuffing" policemen. He is much harder on scientists and technicians for ignoring urgent police equipment needs: tiny radios, night glasses, lightweight armor, heat sensors to detect hidden fugitives, metal sensors for frisking suspects. He also wants someone to develop a gadget to stop a fleeing car's engine and a computerized "instant lawyer" to help police field interrogators avoid unlawful procedures...
...heaven's sake, let's think ahead this time! If the ignition on my neighbor's car can cause interference on my hi-fi and TV, think of the electronic havoc that would be wrought in a city full of cars powered by electricity. The car must be replaced by mass transportation in urban centers-there is no other choice...
...their race with ruin, the new bosses of American Motors Corp. last week decided to rev up their smallest and-nowadays-least popular car: the compact Rambler American. "Between the small imports and the nearest U.S.-built models, no American car is reaching out to the consumer," said Roy D. Chapin Jr., who became A.M.C. chairman only four weeks ago. "The Rambler is going to be driven right into the center of this...
...American was obviously trying to regain the image of its halcyon days. Back in the '50s, then-President George Romney captured most of the U.S. market for compacts with his hoots at larger models as "gas-guzzling dinosaurs." Though American followed along with other models (Ambassador, Marlin) when car buyers' taste returned to the larger size, and even stretched the length and breadth of some Ramblers, its share of U.S. auto sales steadily slipped, from 6.4% in 1960 to a mere 3.2% last year. In fiscal 1966, A.M.C. lost $12.6 million, and last week Chapin and new President...