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The real problem is one of attitudes -- both of and toward police -- the commis- sion said. It proposed community relations units to reduce distrust and urged police departments to screen prospective officers more carefully and supervise them more strictly.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report Criticizes Racial Prejudices Of U.S. Police | 5/1/1967 | See Source »

Ever since the 19th century days of Emperor Dom Pedro II, the Brazilian stock market has been a scene of chaos. The coun try's major stock exchange in Rio de Janeiro has been presided over by a closed group of 40 brokers who passed their seats on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Out of Chaos, Order | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

Gerhard's affinity for Camus first led him to consider writing an opera based on the late French author's bleak first novel, The Stranger, and he still plans to do the work-if he can win a commis sion. But while lying ill two years ago, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oratorios: The Meaning of the Rats | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

United, We Prosper. The French government and private investors are already pouring a million dollars a day into schools and roads, water prospecting, and most of all, the development of the desert's proven oil and gas reserves. By 1964 France hopes to be pumping 30 million tons of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Traveling Salesman | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Jim Egan got his education at Hartford's Trinity College, Harvard and Oxford on scholarships. He began reading during the Depression because "it was the cheapest pleasure around." He hopes to come out of the show with enough money to take his wife to Europe on his first vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Moneymakers | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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