Word: desks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well, as you know, I'm a founding member of the Peekskill Police Advisory Panel (PPAP), so of course I had to interview this Spreen. What a guy! Back of his desk was a huge Valentine from some high school kids inscribed: "Our cops are tops! With luv to the fuzz-Love-Peace-Have a successful love-in." So what's this love bit about? Well,Spreen explained, he had this idea for a 100-day love-in. For 100 days, he wanted all the wise guys to lay off the cops and give him a chance...
...level two months ago, funneled steadily upward and inward to commanders and moved from there to the corridors of Washington. It constituted one of the most intensive policy reviews ever conducted inside the Federal Government, and the subject, of course, was Viet Nam. Last week the results reached the desk of the man who ordered the inquiry, Richard Nixon, who must ultimately weigh the choices and choose his course for extricating the nation from the longest war in its history. The timing was right, for at week's end Nixon flew off to California to continue the questioning in person...
Jack Fadden is a person most people here rarely meet. His office is the Dillon Field House Training Room, which he has occupied for the last 19 years. If he isn't helping an athlete recover from an injury, Jack is usually sitting behind his desk, in a corner, rapid-reading a newspaper or knocking out a crossword puzzle in a couple of minutes...
Baring-Gould lovingly dwells on Wolfe's eccentricities: abhorrence of physical activity (especially any prospect of having to leave his Manhattan brownstone on a case), relish for properly chilled beer (12 bottles a day), reliance on significant small gestures ( a tiny circle traced on a desk top with one finger indicates speechless fury). Wolfe's associates are brightly sketched, notably his slangy, hard-boiled legman Archie Goodwin, whose active role in and narration of Wolfe's Holmesian episodes ties them also to the U.S. tough-guy school of Hammett and Chandler. Even such quirks as Wolfe...
Girls themselves are under a splotlight when they got out or have visitors. In each dorm there is a cadre of people who hang around the bells desk, serving their own purposes but also observing all the comings and goings. Everyone knows who everyone else spends time with and talks about it in the interest of friendship. Some girls pick their dates for their friends rather than themselves. Girls who don't go out at all feel miserable and inferior. They are instantly typed...