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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crime and Punishment. Memphis' Negroes are in a volatile mood over such recent cases as that of Larry James Mitchell Holt, 24, who crumpled the fender of his red Dodge while fleeing (at an estimated 40 m.p.h.) from a pursuing police car. The car's glass was unbroken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: On the Brink in Memphis | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

Last month Robert Stewart, 21, emerged from a grocery and was challenged by two cops. "Hey, come here," commanded one, grabbing his arm. "Get yourself off this corner right now." When Stewart replied that he was there to buy canned milk, the cop spat, "Don't go getting smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: On the Brink in Memphis | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

Deepened Frustration. Four ranking cops were dismissed in a brutality incident last year, but all have been reinstated under the administration of Mayor Loeb. Such wrist-spanking discipline deepens Negro frustration. So does the chest-thumping of Fire and Police Director Frank Holloman, who recently promised an applauding white civic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: On the Brink in Memphis | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

Jammed Carbine. For all the car nage and damage they caused, the Cleveland snipers gave every appearance of bizarre amateurism, brutally inspired. Proclaiming himself their leader, Fred ("Ahmed") Evans, 37, an astrologer, calmly surrendered in the midst of the battle and just as calmly informed cops that he would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: RIOTS: THIS ONE WAS PLANNED | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

3-D Slot Track. Obviously, solving aviation's crisis will take vast amounts of money for new airports and equipment, and far more aerial traffic cops than the 14,000 controllers the Federal Aviation Administration now has in 340 terminals and 27 centers across the U.S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Saturated Sky | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

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