Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William H. Parker was a crusty law-enforcement fundamentalist who spent 16 years building the Los Angeles Police Department into one of the best known, best paid and least corrupt in the U.S. There was a price though: a chilly distance between the cops and the slum Negroes that helped to start the 1965 Watts riots. When Parker died at 64 last July, Los Angeles set out to find a successor skilled in "community relations"-the art of enlisting citizens to help prevent crime, rather than relying on repression after it happens. Last week the city found...
...scientists and technicians for ignoring urgent police equipment needs: tiny radios, night glasses, lightweight armor, heat sensors to detect hidden fugitives, metal sensors for frisking suspects. He also wants someone to develop a gadget to stop a fleeing car's engine and a computerized "instant lawyer" to help police field interrogators avoid unlawful procedures...
...Love to, But . . ., the opposite of Mary Martyr is played in response to heartfelt appeals for help in church work ("I'd love to, but I have seven children under four...
Economic Spectrum. The fast-rising charges mean that most public-university students must now work part-time or seek scholarship help to stay in school. This reflects the fact that the public colleges and universities draw students from a far broader range of economic levels than do the private schools-even those that are liberal with scholarships. More than a fourth of the freshmen at private universities come from families whose annual incomes exceed $20,000, while 27.8% of public freshmen come from families earning less than $6,000. Officials of public universities are overwhelmingly convinced that tuition must...
...before last week's inauguration, Siqueiros was at work, sporting his jaunty, battered fedora and wielding special long-handled brushes. He was putting the finishing touches on a final white steed. By midmorning, he turned up, well spruced, at the entrance to the gallery containing the mural to help cut the ribbon with Mexico's President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz-the honored guest of the regime that jailed...