Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hand. In many ways Gilpatric is McNamara's personality opposite-he is socially gregarious and skilled in the ways of handling admirals, generals and politicians. He plays kind cop to McNamara's tough cop-and McNamara recognizes his value. The two have become close friends (of which McNamara, although widely respected, has few in Washington); and the Pentagon has come increasingly to realize that whatever their difference in demeanor, McNamara and Gilpatric think alike on policy matters. Gilpatric speaks and acts in McNamara's name; indeed, many Defense directives are prepared without signature blocks so that either...
...extended toward blacks by South Africa's Dutch Reformed churches. Most refuse to admit blacks to their services. A current joke has a white policeman entering a church on a Sunday morning, where he finds a lone black on his knees. "What are you doing, Kaffir?" asks the cop. "Scrubbing the floor," answers the African. "O.K.," says the cop. "But God help you if I catch you praying...
...each of the 92 vaccination centers, Boy Scouts put the sugar cubes into paper cups. Pharmacists doused the sugar with three drops of vaccine. As the vaccine ran low, ambulances (many donated by undertakers) with sirens screaming struggled through clogged streets to deliver fresh supplies. Said one cop: "It is the damnedest traffic jam I've ever seen, but nobody's mad." In the carnival atmosphere, pitchmen picked up many a rapid dollar peddling balloons to kids. "Is this American or Cuban sugar?" asked one apprehensive citizen. Assured the U.S. was buying no sugar from Cuba these days...
Wearily, the magistrate applied to higher authorities for permission. Until the papers arrived, Ebtehaj insisted on staying in jail, even grabbed the belt of a cop who had neglected the formality of the occasion and tried to leave Ebtehaj unguarded. Two days later he finally consented to quit his prison hospital cell, and his captors breathed a sigh of relief...
...California courtroom, an accused murderer will soon be confronted by a novel adversary. A witness for the prosecution will be an atomic scientist, armed with "radiation fingerprints," evidence that can be as accurate and reliable as a photograph of the actual crime. No ordinary cop could hope to gather such fingerprints, or even to decipher them. They are the product of neutron activation analysis, which requires that specimens under study be irradiated with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Then the fine details of their chemical composition can be deduced from the pattern of the radiation they give...