Word: lindsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lindsay and several Harvard students met over the summer and developed a questionnaire, which was distributed to returning leave-takers last semester...
...analysis makes no specific recommendations on what facilities Harvard should provide for leave-takers. According to Nancy Lindsay, a research assistant at the OIRE and author of the study, the purpose of the report is to act as a "catalyst to get things started...
...This is not a new report," Lindsay said yesterday. "Its purpose is to remind people, to give them a sense of what people are feeling. We felt it important that a statement be made in favor of leaves...
...crusaded alone against corruption in the New York City Police Department, despite the physical peril and psychological pressure he suffered at the hands of his fellow policemen. Without wealth or influential contacts, Frank Serpico pushed his case against plainclothesmen on the take so far that it embarassed the Lindsay Administration and helped catalyze the Knapp Commission. His story could have given the lie to the current wave of police epics, and not only dramatized the ugliness of New York City streets and jails, but the possibility of changing our society...
...people of his precincts. Even when he discovered that the force was pitted with corruption--that almost the entire plainclothes division raked in protection money from gambling and whorehouses--he refused to let that recognition sink him. He never quit: he took his allegations before a series of Lindsay aides and deputy commissioners and finally broke it to The New York Times. Serpico left the police only after he had already faced the dangers of being a loner on the force and a crusader against the ruling order. He offered public testimony against police (while still recovering from gunshot wounds...