Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schrotel ran a model department. His men were ordered to say "sir" or "madam" when stopping a motorist, were warned against swaggering up to the car or leaning on the door. In the central station house, Schrotel had lists of " the prisoners' constitutional rights stenciled in black on the walls of every cell and even above the pay telephone. The chief's apprentice program enabled young high school graduates to serve as police cadets while they were going to college...
...denied that they knew anything, Goerner fashioned his plot. When Earhart left Lae, he writes, she did not fly directly toward Rowland Island. Instead, acting on the request of a highly placed U.S. official (Goerner hints that it must have been F.D.R.), she headed north toward Truk in the central Carolines to reconnoiter Japanese airfields and fleet-servicing facilities in the area. To make this detour possible without arousing suspicion-after all, the whole world knew the flyers' itinerary-Earhart had had her Electra secretly outfitted with special engines capable of cruising at 200 m.p.h.; as far as anybody...
...fang (rumored to have committed suicide). Even President Liu Shao-chi, 68, who had long been listed as Mao's most likely successor, was dropped from his No. 2 spot to a distant eighth in the succession ratings. Events reached a climax at last month's secret Central Committee meeting, from which Lin emerged even more clearly as Mao's chief lieutenant...
...INSTRUCTED BY THE PRESIDENT, read the headline in a Djakarta newspaper. The words heralded the testimony of onetime Central Bank Minister Jusuf Muda Dalam, 52, who last week became the first of President Su karno's former Cabinet members to be put on trial by the new regime of General Suharto...
...last adherents of a great religion that once enlisted millions of ad herents throughout central Asia,&* the Parsis have traditionally influenced In dia well out of proportion to their numbers. Prosperous, cosmopolitan, literate, they dominate today the business community of Bombay. Industrialist J.R.D. Tata, whose steel mills constitute India's largest privately owned enterprise, is a Parsi; so are General Sam Hormuzji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, one of India's top military leaders, and Zubin Mehta, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Parsi girls for the last three years have won the title of Miss India...