Word: daryl
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Chief of Police Willie Williams, imported from Philadelphia after the riots to replace the truculent Daryl Gates, was intent on not repeating Gates' mistakes of last year, when police were deployed to riot zones too late and in insufficient numbers. In addition to providing his force with new gear, including bullet-resistant helmets, rubber bullets and spray cans of disabling gas, Williams brokered a mutual-aid pact with other Southern California cities. In the event of trouble, up to 20,000 out-of-town reinforcements could be moved...
...group also appointed Daryl Paragua '96 to the newly created post of liaison to the Harvard Foundation board last night. Success in the coming year depends on cooperation among the club members, according to the new co-presidents...
...With Daryl Johnson on bass and Ronald Jones on drums, Lanois has the benefit of the kind of rich rhythm section that can be both goad and guide. When a musical phrase or lyric passage threatens to send Lanois off into deep space, Johnson and Jones can pull him back; when he's revising tradition, as on Indian Red, a kind of New Orleans gumbo classic, they help him explore musical byways that can bring him home again along a brand new route. If Highway 61 ran past Cape Canaveral, Lanois would be singing at the crossroads...
...former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who had run the dazzlingly successful 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, took the helm of Rebuild L.A., the city's formal rebuilding effort. Angelenos also warmly greeted new police chief Willie Williams, who arrived from Philadelphia in July after the forced resignation of the combative Daryl Gates. The era of good feeling even produced a truce between street gangs and a summer-long drop in black-gang-related homicides...
...Daryl C. Norcott '94, known to many undergraduates as "Chicken Man," lost his favorite piece of poultry during the first half of the Harvard-Yale Game when an unidentified student tossed it at a police officer...