Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mistake-on-the-Lake. His record suggests a bizarre combination of New Dealish liberalism and honest-cop abrasiveness. While Richard Hatcher says his personal hero is John Kennedy, Carl Stokes mentions crusty old Harold Ickes, Interior Secretary under F.D.R. One of Stokes's favorite books is Who Governs? by Robert Dahl, which describes the political assimilation of European immigrants in New Haven. Although Dahl was not primarily concerned with Negroes, Stokes associates the Negroes' evolution with that of other minority groups. "If the ethnic pulled himself up a bit with the help of the rope," wrote Dahl...
Died. Dr. Rufus E. Clement, 67, Negro educator and president of Atlanta University since 1937; of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Told in 1940 by an Atlanta cop that he would be shot entering a whites-only area, Clement replied: "If I get shot, I'll get shot in the back." That brand of mettle led him to reject Booker T. Washington's philosophy that Negro education should be aimed at vocational skills; instead, he gave A.U. intellectual aims to make it the best of its kind...
Still, the American stamp was ev ident wherever the Vice President went. Accompanied by a horde of Secret Service men and military police ("They think I have a machine that spits M.P.s," groused one provost marshal), he cop-tered to the U.S.S. Benewah, flagship of River Flotilla 1 anchored off the Delta, to pass out Purple Hearts and news from home. "Who won the Minne sota-Michigan game?" asked a Minnesota sailor. "We took them 20 to 15," grinned Old Gopher Humphrey. Jetting up to Phu Bai, a small Marine outpost near the embattled DMZ, he boarded a transport plane...
There are, however, some hopeful signs. Volunteer Defense Corps units, a kind of local militia armed with bolt-action rifles, are taking up posts in remote villages that rarely saw a cop in the past. In a direct copy of efforts in Viet Nam, well-armed People's Assistance Teams (PAT) are giving selected villages a measure of protection and some civic-action aid. Other cadres sound out local needs, gathering intelligence in the process. Nor is the government ignoring propaganda: it has put up posters in the Northeast showing Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh hovering over...
...author said that the Buddhist monks permanently rejected wordly society. They then "provided a place for others to cop out temporarily...