Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that residents can know who the man behind the badge is, Reddin also gave each cop business cards and name tags?an innocuous but nonetheless controversial departure in a once notoriously highhanded force. Another innovation is actually ancient. Reddin has returned to the streets a man who disappeared from Los Angeles when patrol cars came in: the cop on the beat. It is remarkable in a city where only the poor and the eccentric walk, and so far the experiment is on a tiny scale. About 30 are now pounding the pavements...
Reddin's schemes for better commu nity relations have not worked miracles or turned Watts into a place where happy kiddies constantly listen to stories from avuncular cops. Nonetheless, police are relatively safe in Watts, something that cannot be said for all the nation's ghettos. Though most members of minorities like Reddin's ideas, many Negro militants still refuse to talk with the police. Some, like US (US is black people; whites would be THEM) Chief Ron Karenga, insist that Chief Parker's out-and-out hostility would be preferable to Reddin's firm amiability. The police, says Karenga...
...Adams nonetheless patented his battery in 1943. Then ten years later, the Army got a patent of its own-without a word to Adams-and ordered more than a million batteries built to its own design. Sure that he had been bilked, Bert went to court. Six other men, who had backed the invention, joined the suit. Not until 1966 did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that Bert's patent had indeed been infringed. Last February the lawyers involved agreed that the Government should pay $2,500,000 in damages...
...requiring West Germans to buy transit visas and pay cargo taxes when traveling or moving goods across East German territory to West Berlin. For a city that withstood an all-out Communist blockade in 1948-49, Ulbricht's new restrictions in themselves are little more than a nuisance. Nonetheless, they dramatized anew the perilous state of West Berlin's economic links-a fact that has frightened off both industry and labor...
Although during the Hayden piece the second violinist appeared to provide background for Schneider's brilliant performance, the quartet nonetheless played as one--with perfect balance, coordinated variation, and excellent timing...