Word: naming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems this city got a new police commissioner last July and, boy, I guess it needed one. A year after those awful riots and all, the ghettos were still rumbling and the cops were being charged with brutality, inefficiency, corruption and so forth. So this new commissioner-his name, I learned, is Johannes F. Spreen, and he comes from New York City-announces a big-deal program of police reform. Tough new disciplinary standards, new equipment, etc. Mace? Hell, no! You won't believe it, honey, but Spreen's cure-all for crime is another four-letter word...
...ground, Spreen starts another drive, this time for dollar contributions from citizens to help the department buy some new equipment. He calls it "Buck Up Your Police," and already $11,000 has come in. And he isn't forgetting the reforms, either. He's putting name tags on the cops, and he has them out walking a beat so the people will get to know them...
...political party that would exert power in South Viet Nam like any other party, to the extent that it wins votes. This arrangement is now discussed as the "Greek solution," since the N.L.F., like the Greek Communist Party following the civil war in 1950, would have to change its name in order to comply with the South Vietnamese constitution. Thieu has spoken derisively of such a proposal, though he has not actually ruled it out. Indeed, there is little doubt that, in one form or another, he must some day accept its principal component: the participation of the N.L.F...
Almost his first move as President was to establish an agency with the somewhat pompous name of "the Office of Experts." It consisted of a group of highly trained technocrats (average age: 34) assigned to find ways of breathing efficiency into the government. Despite considerable effort, they have not succeeded in getting rid of the mountainous red tape that hampers government administration. Moreover, one of the root problems in South Viet Nam's government?corruption?is so pervasive that neither stern warnings nor the outright firing of half the 44 province chiefs and 91 district chiefs has made more than...
There, photographed in a sober row at the Budapest meeting of the Warsaw Pact members, were the familiar faces of Russia's leaders: Grechko, Kosygin, Brezhnev, Gromyko, Katushev. Katushev? Neither the face nor the name was familiar. Both are likely to become more so, however, as time goes on. Konstantin Katushev is Moscow's new man around town, and his swift ascent to power has surprised even Kremlinologists. A year ago, Katushev, a stern-visaged man with a barrel chest, was an insignificant regional party secretary, one of more than a hundred such factotums scattered throughout Russia. Today...