Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they suspect of Communist sympathies or simple malfeasance-in many cases without benefit of judicial procedure. Last week the hard-liners were dealt a hard blow. It came from none other than ex-General Castello Branco, whose regime after twelve months seems confident of success and determined to restore civilian rule...
...fuss is about the civilian police review board in Rochester, N.Y. Set up two years ago, after a series of Negro complaints about mistreatment by white policemen, the board has yet to hear a single case, but its supporters-chiefly civil rights leaders, unionists and clergy -feel that it has caused the police to discipline themselves better. Almost to a man, the city's 536 policemen feel that the board is intolerable...
Proponents claim that the only way to re-establish the confidence of minority groups in the police is through the establishment of independent boards that would study civilian complaints against the police and recommend remedies and punishments to police commissioners. They insist that such boards would not interfere with normal police work, but would only deter bullies in uniform from using undue muscle. The end result, they say, would be an improved climate of community trust...
...Hence the U.S. has grown pragmatic; it has learned that order and stability, even if relatively undemocratic, can be more important in emerging nations than a premature democracy that invites chaos. Thus the U.S. officially applauded (and some say instigated) the overthrow of a hopelessly inefficient and left-wing civilian regime in Guatemala, and cheered the downfall of a left-sliding, if popularly elected, government in Brazil...
...Next he lapses into adultery with his former steady (Ann-Margret), now married, of course, to "a wealthy older man." Since Ann-Margret's wriggly portrayal of a hick-town temptress requires orchestral accompaniment, their romance tends to slacken whenever the jukebox goes dead. Bus finally readjusts to civilian life by discovering that happiness is a rebuilt carburetor and his kid sister's chum Judy, sensitively played by Janet Margolin (of David and Lisa...