Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...searching indictment of the 3,000-man force was returned last month by the International Association of Chiefs of Police after an eight-month, $52,000 study for the state of Maryland. It prompted the police commissioner and his chief inspector to resign and, more important, jolted complacent Baltimoreans into a thorough reappraisal of law enforcement in their city...
...training and placement centers in all Negro neighborhoods, state legislation to force big employers to report how many Negroes they have on the payroll. >To meet persistent Negro charges of police oppression, it recommended strengthening the Los Angeles' figurehead Board of Police Commissioners and creation of an inspector general's office to investigate citizens' complaints, Even before the commission finished its report, Chairman McCone predicted that it would anger as many people as it pleased. It did. Civil rights leaders accused it of superficiality, said it skirted around the question of police brutality, and almost entirely ducked...
...Paris pulps at the rate of 80 pages a day. In less than four years he knocked out "more than 300" (he soon lost count) novels and novelettes, and once actually splattered off a quite readable novel in 25 hours. At 25, he dropped his 17 pseudonyms, invented Inspector Maigret, and wrote the first of "more than 60" detective novels that have made him the most famous of French whodunists. In his 30s he began to write an occasional straight novel (The Snow Is Black, The Bells of Bicêtre), and he wrote them with such fierce finesse that...
...keel, promenade deck and railings, replaced a propeller and some machinery. The Coast Guard examined her in drydock, three weeks later held a dockside fire and lifeboat drill. About all that could be said for the ship was said by Captain Vitus G. Niebergall, Coast Guard safety inspector: "International convention allows one half-hour to get lifeboats into the water. This boat got its lifeboats into the water in eight minutes." When she caught fire, by contrast, half of the Castle's 14 lifeboats and most of her life rafts never got into the water...
This estimate of French attitudes was based, he said, on information provided by "a French inspector general" in several letters and a recent visit. The official's correspondence, he told the Public Affairs Forum at the Business School "seemed to clear up a lot of difficulties...