Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William Parker, a 63-year-old native of Lead, S. Dak., is a crusty cop who neither drinks nor smokes, is married to a former policewoman, and lives in a modest suburban home protected by a massive chain-link fence. He joined the L.A. police force 38 years ago, won a law degree by studying nights and, though little liked by less austere fellow officers, rose rapidly. Parker was appointed chief in 1950. In a traditionally precarious post−the average tenure of his predecessors was 18 months−Parker has lasted 15 years, and made the Los Angeles Police...
...Reports, the magazine put out by Nieman Fellows at Harvard, Rand's comments have been reprinted in Reporting the News (Belknap; $6.50), an anthology of such essays selected by former Nieman Curator Louis Lyons. Spanning almost 20 years, most of the articles now seem dated. Rand's modest faultfinding is as contemporary as the latest dateline...
...dead, was a finance officer at a veterans' hospital, and got his name because he was born in New York City in the year of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' 1492 voyage, the week of the dedication of Columbus Circle.) Young Chris grew up in a modest duplex in a tough part of Phoebus, played a good game of sand-lot baseball and dreamed of becoming a big-leaguer. To this day, his most prized possession is a baseball he had autographed by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig one hot summer day when he was nine years...
...tournaments without a purse was as dreary as dancing without music So betting slowly crept back to the links, and today members in hundreds of clubs across the country are watching fellow golfers practice putts with more than a casual interest. Many clubs are playing it safe, allowing only modest parimutuel bets; others have returned to the auctions of old, only slightly toned down. Wary in some cases of local ordinances against gambling while drinking (most Calcutta auctions are held after dinner parties), nervous about the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Calcuttas are gambling operations and therefore subject...
...Great Society is something that could be called Economicare. More than the Old. The first mean ingful impact of the new social programs will come early next month when 20 million people begin receiving the 7% higher social security benefits recently voted by Congress. The average monthly hikes seem modest-$5 for individual recipients, $8 for couples-but they will channel $1.2 billion more into the economy this year and $117 million a month thereafter. Because the increases are retroactive to Jan. 1, each recipient will collect eight months of bonus in one swoop-amounting among couples...