Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Talking to Joe MacDonald, you get the feeling that he may be right--that it may be possible to "turn on" the whole world. "Sure, we can turn on everybody, and I don't mean drugs," he said. 'Go back home and relate with your parents. Eat dinner with them. You don't have to turn them on to drugs. My parents don't take drugs, but that's all right. It doesn't make much difference. We know something that they don't know. We gotta help them...
...Walter E. Headley Jr. "Why shouldn't police departments be stockpiling lethal weapons? Weapons are being stockpiled in Viet Nam, and this is a war too." Houston Police Chief Herman Short called the commission's criti cism "ridiculous," adding: "The stockpiling of heavy weapons wouldn't mean anything to anybody if everybody obeyed the law." Atlanta Police Chief Herbert Jenkins, one of the eleven commissioners, took exception to his colleagues' complaints about the report. "I'll buy it, I stand with it, I fall with it," said Jenkins...
...base. Once a year pilgrims from Ceylon and India come to the island to pay homage to its patron saint, St. Anthony, in a tiny church that measures only 12 ft. by 14 ft. and can hold at most 100 worshipers. Last week Kachcha Tivu, Tamil words that mean barren island, gained a measure of international prominence by becoming the center of one of history's more ridiculous disputes...
Against Abuse. There were problems, of course. High-crime areas in Miami mean Negro slums, and there were rumbles of discontent from militant Negroes who felt that the crackdown was discriminatory. But Negro merchants were generally pleased, and civil rights leaders worked to cool the hotter tempers. Said one of Chief Headley's top men: "If Miami Beach police crack down, do you say they are anti-Jewish?" Agrees Headley: "Any commanding officer would put his troops where the action...
...when the Courses of Study Committee--Yale's ruling body on academic affairs--voted to reduce the total requirements for a Yale degree from 20 to 18 full courses. At that time, according to reliable sources, the sense of the Committee was that the reduced course load would mean the end of academic credit for courses not actually administered by Yale...