Word: maces
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing that helped avert bloodshed in New Haven last week was a small aerosol bomb, the "Chemical Mace," that is being put into use by some 2,000 law-enforcement agencies across the country and in time may well replace the head-cracking, bone-breaking billy club. Dubbed the "gentle persuader" by some policemen, the Mace fits inconspicuously in a belt holster-and looks about as persuasive as a can of shaving foam...
...resemblance ends there. With a range of from 12 ft. to 15 ft., the Mace's chemical stream (a tear-gas concentrate called phenylchloromethylketone) affects nerve ends and produces an instant shock and a choking sensation that incapacitate its victim as effectively as a blow on the head or a hand on the throat. Yet the chemical wears off after about 30 minutes, leaving no lasting aftereffects. In New Haven, Police Chief Francis McManus found it "highly effective" in quelling the mob. The Mace has also been use ful in everyday police work. In the year it has been...
...conspicuously empty. At just a few minutes before noon there will be a loud rapping on the chamber's main door. The president of the senate, who will be presiding, will order the door opened, and a man dressed in a morning suit and top hat, holding an ivory mace will enter and cry out. "His Excellency, the Governor-elect; His Honor, the Lieutenant Governor-elect, the Executive Council and the constitutional officers-elect of the Common-wealth of Massachusetts...
Pusey's talk followed a welcome from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Governor Volpe, the first of five speakers to greet the audience of 4000 after the Chief Marshall, with red robes and a five-foot high golden mace, had declared, "The ceremony is convened...
...touch with the changing realities of modern society. Most of them tend to embitter spouses, neglect the welfare of the children, prevent reconciliation and produce a large measure of hypocrisy, double-dealing and perjury. Looking at the welter of divorce laws in the U.S., David R. Mace, executive director of the American Association of Marriage Counselors, can only call it "an absolutely ghastly, dreadful, deplorably messy situation." Across the U.S., judges, lawyers and marriage experts are raising an urgent cry that it is time to reform and humanize the divorce system...