Word: fuzzed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest research on police use of helicopters, learn how Lebanon is persuading farmers to grow sunflowers instead of hashish-or call on the FBI's monumental files of 184 million fingerprints. By holding annual conventions on a different continent each year, Interpol unites the world's fuzz-Tokyo detectives, Canadian mounties, U.S. narcotics agents-for mutual education in everything from electronics to odonto-grams (tooth identification). In addition, Interpol organizes regular seminars on scientific crime detection, sends forgery bulletins to 5,000 banks and credit houses and reprints learned articles from 300 police publications in 60 countries...
...redeeming social importance." While their lyrics can be brutally sharp--"Kill for Peace" is a savage attack on the Vietnam war--their message is one of love. Writes Ginsberg, the funniest of the hippie saints, "Birchites are lacklove, Republicans and Democrats too are lacklove, Communists lack love, Narco, fuzz and White South Governors lack love. I say make love to them. They need it most. We all have to be funny saints to survive...
Over many years one of the most important ways of coping with this difficult situation has been to try to fuzz it over. Under the guise of civil libertarian reasoning, welfare organizations, both national and local, have tried to "wish away" race as a category, and this has had the latent function of concealing the extent to which discrimination continues. One of the early civil-rights activities of the Kennedy administration was to try to reverse this trend so that at least the government could be informed about the extent to which Negroes were disadvantaged. Having this "color blind" point...
...Squares & the Fuzz. The youthful takeover of the Strip began four years ago, after TV had caused the Hollywood movie industry to slump and Las Vegas had wooed away the big-name entertainers. This left a vacuum that high school teen-agers rushed in to fill. Soon a dozen more à Go-Go clubs sprouted along the length of the Strip itself. Since the Strip was an unincorporated free zone loosely administered by Los Angeles County, club owners last year succeeded in gaining "youth permits" to admit minors under 21, provided that they were not served liquor. The stampede...
...that might have been overlooked had the Strip been tucked out of the way. But it is a main thoroughfare between Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, heavily traveled by both the local citizenry and tourists from afar. The politicians, the property owners and the police-the squares and the fuzz, as the "Strippies" call them-decided that the Strip's image badly needed reburnishing...