Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policeman, adds Reddin, "deals with filth, the dregs of humanity, on a minute-to-minute basis. It's not hard for him to reach a point where he says that people are no damn good, so to hell with people." Yet as Miami Beach's Chief Rocky Pomerance only half-jokingly observes, "a policeman these days has to be part priest, part psychiatrist, part social worker, part karate expert?and he has to be able to make a decision in a few seconds that will stand up before complex legal scrutiny clear up to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Sitting in a single-story, tin-roofed building on Saigon's river front, the five-man military court took only an hour and a half to complete the trial. Its verdict: Guilty of treason, plotting and falsely espousing the cause of peace in accordance with Communist policy. With that, South Viet Nam last week sentenced to death the entire ten-mem ber leadership of the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces, a group of South Vietnamese intellectuals and professionals formed three months ago with the announced intention of bringing peace to Viet Nam through a coalition government. They...
...pacificism and partly on self-sufficiency. Many leaders, too, are embarrassed over the continued dependence of Asia's No. 1 industrial power on U.S. defense hardware. Many of them look for a change in 1970, when the mutual-protection pact comes up for review. Polls show that nearly half the population is still undecided on whether the agreement should be continued; the tendency for now, however, is to put off thinking about an unpleasant choice...
Portnoy's Complaint, newest novel by Philip Roth, 35, won't hit the stalls for another seven months, yet about half of its 80,000 words have already been quoted by four national publications. And pretty lively they are too: explicitly detailing Portnoy's super sex life from toilet training through masturbation and on to intercourse, intercourse, intercourse, all told in the form of monologues delivered by a Jewish boy to his psychoanalyst. With that kind of copy and more to come, no wonder Random House has given Roth a $250,000 advance for the book...
...Newton (Mass.) High School, electronics students learn radio repair with vacuum tubes instead of solidstate sets. And in classrooms from Bangor, Me., to Beverly Hills, Calif., future auto mechanics finish their courses with out scraping a knuckle inside an automatic transmission (though 80% of U.S. cars are shiftless). One-half of all shop students in the U.S. are plugging away at home economics and agriculture-hardly critical crafts-while only 15% practice more pertinent skills such as industrial design, medical technology and visual communications. "I worked in the shops for four years," says one still-unemployed electronics graduate...