Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Policeman Kennedy, on the other hand, is against gangs, period. He makes no distinction between boppers and defensives. Two summers ago, after the Youth Board arranged a cool and helped allot turf to Lower East Side Puerto Ricans and Negroes who had shot up two youngsters in a rumble, the commissioner passed on a pointed order to his department: "You shall not enter into treaties, concordats, compacts or agreements of appeasement. You shall meet violence with sufficient force, legally applied, to bring violators to justice. Every man, woman and child has the right to use the streets of this city...
Since that incident there has been no cool between Police Commissioner Kennedy and the New York City Youth Board. Says one board official bitterly: "All Kennedy wants is to swing the big stick, arrest more kids, get more cops, bust up gangs. Where's his respect for the human being?" Contends another critic, Columbia University's New York School of Social Work Professor Alfred J. Kahn: "The conduct he encourages in his officers in effect challenges the objectives of our statutes and substitutes his personal philosophy for that...
...year, the hot spell of 1958 was worse than any for a decade in New Delhi, half a century in Andhra Pradesh. The thermometer hit 121°F.* in the pilgrim center of Bhadrachalam; it hovered around 100°F. in Delhi even at night. Except in the cool hills to which only a few could escape, a relentless sun licked the country like a flamethrower. And from the sun came tragedy...
Since the hot weather began in May more than a thousand have died in India from the heat. In the days of the British raj, civil servants used to flee from the hot plains to the summer capital in the cool hill town of Simla. But Indian civil servants, afraid of the charge that they are unwilling to put up with what the voters must, have to sweat it out in dusty New Delhi...
...cups of water were poured over screens of khus-khus grass to cool homes, and millions of Indians drank curd milk mixed with salt, the superstitious villagers of Uttar Pradesh put slices of onion beneath their turbans and hung garlic on their fans in the belief it would ward off sunstroke. In Madras black pepper was rubbed on the head of the elephant god to create "such a burning sensation that he will gush forth rain." The prayers were answered last week in some parts of India with the arrival of the welcome monsoon, though not in the hard...