Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chances of one of them throwing a rock at him or at a police car are less. It's the most expensive way of deploying policemen, but in the long run it could very well turn out to be the least expensive." Other cities that had cut back on foot patrolmen are also discovering new virtues in old ways. "When I was walking a beat," remembers St. Louis' Chief Brostron, "the policeman knew the good people and the bad ones, the joints and the gambling dens. The officer in the car today doesn't have that contact." Still, with...
...second act. It is inventive, fast, furious, and so athletic that, at the opening performance, the Emperor's august knee not surprisingly got skinned and began to bleed. When at last the Emperor brags, "I have subdued the beast," the supine Lion himself places the Emperor's phonily victorious foot on the vanquished leonine belly instead of letting the Emperor do it of his own accord as Shaw prescribes--a delightfully inspired touch...
John Braxton, who will be a junior at Swarthmore, was a member of the eight man crew of the 50 foot ketch Phoenix which sailed last winter from Hong Kong to Haiphong, defying a State Department ban and government statute, to deliver several thousands dollars worth of vital surgical and x-ray equipment to the North Vietnamese Red Cross...
...commercials (see chart, next page). This year 2,000 advertisers will pour $3.1 billion into television advertising twice the budget of the poverty program reaching 95% of the nation's homes. What's more, the TV spieler has a unique license. He doesn't have to stick his foot in the door. He's already in the living room, chattering away from The Farm Hour right through Sermonette. Conveniently deaf, he just smiles and hammers home his quota of 600 "brief messages...
...blue choker and helmet. Rosaline (Denise Huot), in a navy blue suit and white boots, also arrives on a Honda (which, at the opening performance, nearly sailed over the footlights and into the audience), while the other two ladies, Maria (Kathleen Dabney) and Katherine (Marian Hailey), appear on foot. The Princess' courtier Boyet (Thomas Ruisinger), in a blue jacket with yellow handkerchief, white ducks, bow tie, and black-and-white shoes, is a U.S. Southerner with a duly droll drawl...