Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote: "Most city and state police agencies are still not equipped to deal effectively with clever, well-financed conspiracies that extend across city and state lines . . . Besides, coordination among law-enforcement agencies at all levels is frequently weak or totally absent...
...that the "bad guys" can always unite in strength, while the "good guys" never can? One of the reasons is our fanatical loyalty to the concept of states' rights, in which both groups associated with law-lawmakers (politicians) and law-enforcement agencies -are willing to pay any price to preserve their precious autonomies. The result is divisiveness and weakness in every area, from the shameful unevennesses in the quality of our various school systems to the failure of law-enforcement agencies to unite effectively. This is only part of the price we are willing to pay. But, fools that...
...TIME is probably right as to the survival of La Cosa Nostra "until there is a popular revolt." Precisely why public indignation is a prerequisite to the enforcement of law remains an enigma. I had supposed the protection of the public through legal processes was the fundamental excuse for a government's existence. But if the weapon of public indignation is required to "knock off" the new breed of gentle hoods, let us indignate...
...called upon to settle arguments-last year two college roommates quibbled about who makes more money, pro footballers or auto racers (the top stars are about even-in the six-figure range). Both lawyers-and prisoners-by the score request citations of cases referred to in TIME'S Law section, and Medicine brings a flood of requests for further information on stories. Most new products we mention bring requests for further information; the current favorite is the all-terrain vehicle described in Sport last month...
...things like cut his toenails in bed. But his basic role is to nag at Harry and call him (her) a "twit." Be it ever so hurtful, there is no place like home, and in its pathetic way the Charlie-Harry relationship is a bad marriage that works. The law threatens to sever it. Charlie has been apprehended doing a transvestite turn in a gay club, and must appear in court. Like gentle, trapped and panicky animals, Charlie and Harry evoke the moral of compassion that underlies Staircase...