Word: herberts
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...Pittsburgh and Memphis, have not taken even the first step. Few have recognized that in the turbid inner cities more than efficiency is needed, that the cop must indeed be a man of many parts. Among the few: New York's Howard Leary, Washington's Patrick Murphy, Atlanta's Herbert Jenkins, St. Louis' Curtis Brostron. And, of course, Tom Reddin...
Atlanta's Herbert Jenkins, 61, the only policeman on the riot commission, is impatient with conventional attitudes. With no help from a state headed by racist Governor Lester Maddox, Jenkins keeps relative calm in one of the Deep South's fastest-growing cities. He hired the first Negro officers in 1948, an almost unheard-of step in the South at that time, and spoke up for Negroes long before riots made such talk politic. "If a police officer is so thin-skinned that he is afraid of being called a 'nigger lover' because he is doing...
These four men, led by a veteran Antarctic cartographer and explorer named Wally Herbert, comprise the British Trans-Arctic Expedition, and their aim is to drive by sled from Barrow to the Pole and down to Spitzbergen Island--3,500 miles all told. Perry and the other adventurers who roamed the ice pack 60 years ago traveled a few hundred miles out on the ice, perhaps to the pole, and then turned back. But Herbert's group plans to spend a full 16 months in their crossing, with frequent scientific observations along...
...deserve at least respectful attention; indeed, it seems to have been the right novel at the right time. But, peculiarly, Nat Turner has provoked an astonishing amount of wrath from black militants, as well as a nasty exchange in The Nation between Styron and Communist Theoretician and Historian Herbert Aptheker, who claims that the novel is inaccurate...
Expectable in almost every other way, the nomination nonetheless provoked an unexpected reaction, arousing more opposition in the Senate than any other court appointment since 1930?when Herbert Hoover's choice of John J. Parker was rejected by a margin of two votes. But Parker was denied the post because of labor and Negro antipathy. Fortas is opposed not for what he has done but for what he is: the choice of a man who will be in office for less than seven more months, and the President's close friend and confidant to boot. The appointment smacked of "cronyism...