Word: clark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROBERT F. CLARK Administrative Assistant Papal Volunteers for Latin America Chicago...
...only comment is an emphatic 'No Comment,'" said Walter Clark, dean of men at the Summer School. Thomas E. Crooks, director of the Summer School, was not available for comment...
...Your cover story on Race Driver Jim Clark [July 9] says that "in the early days, British motorists had to be preceded by men on foot crying their approach." Nonsense! Up to 1896, mechanically propelled vehicles had to be preceded by a man carrying a red flag, neither to exceed 4 m.p.h. I have seen steam rollers moving at 3 m.p.h. with a man walking in front with the flag (I am 83). On Nov. 14, 1896, the speed permitted was increased to 12 m.p.h. To celebrate, a run was organized from London to Brighton for a collection of motor...
...This nation can't afford bargain-basement cops any more," says Oregon's Multnomah County (Portland) Sheriff Donald Clark. But bargain-basement cops are what many cities get as they compete for manpower with widely varying standards of pay, training and competence. Moreover, the country's swiftly changing laws daunt even bright cops, who now have to cope with Supreme Court decisions that sometimes baffle even learned justices...
Almost everyone agrees that U.S. police sorely need more education, but few people do anything about the problem. Sheriff Clark has just made a start by getting the county civil-service commission to set new rules aimed at sharply upgrading his 210 deputies, of whom only 15 are college graduates. In the first such action by a major U.S. police force, Sheriff Clark now demands that every one of his future deputies boast at least a bachelor's degree. If he can also raise the pay (current maximum: $6,996 a year), he may well...