Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lindsay calls Joseph Fink "my favorite hippie." The truth is, Fink is something of a square. He does not freak out, sport beads or let his hair hang to his collar. Instead, Fink wears the badge of a deputy inspector in the New York City Police Department. As head cop in the bohemian quarter of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Fink mans a little-known frontier of the law: preventive enforcement. At a time when young nonconformists tend to see cops as oppressors, call them pigs to their faces and even fling excrement at them, Fink stands...
During one such gathering last month, they succeeded. Fink's peace seemed on the verge of blowing up after one cop bloodied the scalp of a yippie who was resisting arrest. But the next day when 150 Workshop demonstrators marched into St. Mark's Place seeking revenge, Fink was there to supervise them, along with five of his men. For all their noisy speeches, they could not persuade the spectators to turn against the police. As a benevolent Fink looked on, the rally soon fizzled out. Even when 20% of Fink's men called in sick during...
...league competition, Brown held on to first place and strengthened its claim to its second straight championship with an easy 5-1 romp over seventh place Princeton. Brown co-captain Ben Brewster scored one goal and added two assists to up his Ivy scoring total to eight points to cop first place in the individual scoring honors...
...gala bash at Fenway Park, the McCarthy rally at the Garden last Friday was pretty tame stuff. Naturally there were plenty of good reasons for all the elbow room and the lack of ecstasy over the predictable sloganeering. Gene has been swamped at Chicago, Nixon, the sabre-rattling cop, was heading into the homestretch with a big lead, the Vietnam war seemed ready to take an astonishingly civilized turn, and the Garden in the fall isn't Fenway in midsummer...
FORTUNATELY, the crowd wasn't in Gilligan's unenviable leadership position. Some of them sat there bored, complaining that the talk was "stale," or "phony." They would cop out when the V.C. did. Others, especially a group of McCarthy's ex-aides, stood near the podium, cheered wildly, made V-signals, and wore "Still With McCarthy" buttons. They were still in Oregon...