Word: copse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DAYS 6, 7, 8. The hunt settles down to gray, repetitive routine-phone work, sifting previously gathered information, conferring with informers. One hundred detectives and police officers are now working full-time on the case, and everyone else on the force has it in mind. "There are 30,000 cops...
Smashed Windshield. Some violence has gone unreported. The only incident involving police gunfire during Louisville's first tense week of busing was ignored by the Louisville press. Indeed, before school started the Louisville media had adopted a set of voluntary guidelines which were designed to prevent an exacerbation of...
The hottest-selling armor since Wilkinson Sword turned out chain-mail flak suits for airmen in World War II is made, improbably enough, from a finespun synthetic fiber called Kevlar. Developed by Du Pont and used primarily as a substitute for steel in belted radial tires, the fabric-lighter than...
Using coded numbers referring to prearranged assembly points, a good many of the car-borne rioters cruising the streets when school busing began in the Louisville area a week ago brought a new weapon to the arsenal of the urban demonstrator: the citizens' band radio. When local officials realized...
And Giff plods on, astonished by the crush of lives and goods that society has demonically blistered out of nature. Professional athletics, street crime, and violent sexism are worldly dimensions that Gifford has never had to contemplate from the blessed security of his provincial office. Hough's urban world is...