Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson asked the cops' backing for two riot-related Administration bills: the "safe streets" act, now through the House but still in subcommittee in the Senate, which proposes better pay and training for police; and long-delayed gun legislation that would curb mailorder sales and require a degree of...
Problems & Solutions. Criticized from all sides for being either too easy or too tough on rioters, the chiefs were tired of being whipping boys, and their mood mirrored the edgy morale of line cops back home. Partly to buck up that mo rale, Lyndon Johnson made a surprise visit to...
"Clean & Paint." By far the major undertaking of Tamm's men, however, is the work they do analyzing individual police forces in excruciating detail. One recent 498-page study of New York's finest called for a complete overhaul of the organizational machinery; then it described just how...
Outburst of Pique. Groppi and his Youth Council "commandos," most of them husky, high-spirited Negro lads, failed during the August riots to march on the Graustarkian downtown city hall where Democratic Mayor Henry Maier holds sway. They were checked by Maier's ironfisted curfew. Earlier this month, the...
Not since the '30s have American writers been so interested in the novelistic possibilities of poverty and despair. This and the following two books, A Glance Away and The W.A.S.P., all deal in their own way with life in the slums. A Hall of Mirrors' three main characters...