Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other big-city force (three civilians for every ten in uniform); they handle many tasks, such as clerical work and traffic direction, that elsewhere sworn policemen usually perform, thus freeing all but a few regulars for active law-enforcement duty. An elite team of 225, known as the "Top Group," has been organized for special assignments, such as nabbing organized car-theft rings or stickup artists. A "community radio watch," composed of cabbies and truck drivers who have two-way radios, is being formed to alert police to violations. Eventually, Reddin guesses, the radio watchers could add 60,000 pairs...
...like, say, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Clymbeline, and Henry IV. Although not appearing until after the Prologue, Lavinia is Shaw's leading character and spokesman. In his Postscript, Shaw calls her "a clever and fearless freethinker." She is one of his huge gallery of extraordinary women--a group unsurpassed by any other twentieth-century dramatist. Lavinia falls into the category of those persons passionately driven by con-science and commitment--like his Saint Joan, his Major Barbara, his Vivie (in Mrs. Warren's Profession), and his Lina (in Misalliance...
Computers are teaching economics to a group of summer school students. The economics department has developed a four hour course that mey be the fore-runner of longer courses to be offered as supplementary work next year in Economics...
...trip, sponsored by "A Quaker Action Group," turned to North Vietnam, after the government of South Vietnam had refused to allow Phoenix to unload its material in Danang and again at Saigon. In both ports, what Brazton called "mysterious accidental collisions" with South Vietnamese patrol boats resulted in damage to the Quaker ship...
...name ten years ago (didn't know it was going that long did you?) as a scurrilous irreverent underground rag. In its latest issue though, Paul Krassner, the organization's guiding light, has turned to the more elevated purpose of spreading the hippies good word. The diggers, that nimble group of modern-day saints, were allowed to share their thing with those outside--40,000 copies worth...