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...word cop means many things to many people, and its origin is not certain. One explanation is that it is the abbreviation for Constable of Police; another traces it to the verb copper?to arrest or inform against. * Apparently from "Mr. Charlie," the equivalent of honky or whitey. -In an experimental program pioneered by the Vera Institute of Justice, New York is now sending many Bowery drunks to an infirmary, where they are dried out, counseled, and assisted in finding jobs. In six months, only 150 of the 650 men treated have been arrested again...
...represents someone-someone to whom you could give a name," says Archaeologist Roger Grosjean, 47, the man responsible for bringing the monuments to light. Corsica's sculptured menhirs (from Breton men-stone, and hir-long) are among the oldest monumental statues in Europe. Says Grosjean: "For the origin of sculpture, these monumental figures are as important as the cave drawings of Lascaux and Altamira are for the origin of painting...
...site of the investigations was beside an altar of the original basilica, built by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century and unearthed during excavations beneath St. Peter's begun in 1939. The results of the excavations led Pope Pius XII to announce in 1950 that the tomb of Peter had been discovered. Three years later, Professor Margherita Guarducci, who teaches Greek epigraphy and antiquities at the University of Rome, began studying the inscriptions on a red plaster wall inside which the skeletal remains had been found. "As soon as I saw the cloth remnants," says Dr. Guarducci...
...politics. This year temperatures - and tempers - are soaring unusually high as the result of a rash of fires that began to flare last October, just as candidates were warming up for what promises to be a sulfurous 1968 campaign. All the fires have been traced to the same origin: fire bombs aimed at driving U.S. -owned business out of the Commonwealth. In the past year, arsonists have set 20 fires costing $15.6 million, with department stores and supermarkets the principal targets...
...full-facility hospitals that require membership in A.M.A.-affiliated county medical societies. Last week the A.M.A. finally faced up to the problem by calling for changes in the association bylaws that would subject any affiliate that denies membership on the grounds of "color, creed, race, religion or ethnic origin," to dismissal...