Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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All things considered, the lot of New York City Police Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy has been tough and not particularly happy. An up-from-the-ranks cop with the personality of a blunt instrument (TIME Cover, July 7, 1958), Steve Kennedy had to run an understaffed, underpaid army of 24...
But characteristically, Steve Kennedy demanded some basic agreements with the mayor before he would accept reappointment. He insisted on continuing his ban against moonlighting on the force, on the ground that cops cannot afford the divided loyalties involved in outside, off-duty jobs (permitted in the fire department). Wagner agreed...
Kashamura lost control of his own rampaging troops a fortnight ago. So Gizenga sent out Hatchetman Christopher Gbenye from Stanleyville to fetch Kashamura home. But Kashamura's cops met Gbenye at the city limits, sent him fleeing to the local U.N. troops for sanctuary. Then Kashamura began to fear...
Not all the whoopee is without consequences; by carnival's end last week, Rio's firemen had been called out 50 times, some 6,995 people had reported into the city's hospitals for treatment of bruises and wounds, and another 2,350 had been hauled in...
In date-palmed Borazjan, workers closed down the bazaar in a strike against election irregularities. In arid Shahabad, citizens who had found bast in a telegraph office were wiring protests to the Shah. Others contemptuously voted for the Shah's three-month-old son, Crown Prince Reza. Street battles...