Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Franz Kafka and Thomas Hardy, it now favors such social commentators and fashionable authors as Britain's Kenneth Tynan and France's Françoise Sagan. Nancy White and her editors take pride in the fact that Bazaar was the first to play up bikinis (on Suzy Parker), women's boots, big watches, and was the first to run a man (Steve McQueen) on the cover...
Chief William H. Parker was a crusty law-enforcement fundamentalist who spent 16 years building the Los Angeles Police Department into one of the best known, best paid and least corrupt in the U.S. There was a price though: a chilly distance between the cops and the slum Negroes that helped to start the 1965 Watts riots. When Parker died at 64 last July, Los Angeles set out to find a successor skilled in "community relations"-the art of enlisting citizens to help prevent crime, rather than relying on repression after it happens. Last week the city found...
Positive Thirst. Chief Reddin calls his predecessor "one of the greatest police administrators who ever lived." But Tom Reddin, he adds, "is a different fellow from William H. Parker." Reddin sees opportunity in "a community thirst for positive programs from law-enforcement people. We have to find a lot of things to be for rather than a lot of things to be against." The son of a New York millionaire who got rich running carnivals, Reddin was forced into optimism when his father lost every penny vainly drilling for oil in Oklahoma. A star student as well as a star...
...chief of detectives after Parker died, Reddin took a battery of tests-for the top post that pitted him against Inspector James G. Fisk, the department's articulate chief of community relations. Fisk had toiled to heal the wounds of Watts, sending white-Negro police teams into ghetto schools, running workshops for gang members, assigning patrolmen to walk around meeting people and "dispel stereotypes." On the test scores, Fisk beat Reddin by a hairline half of 1%. The city's five police commissioners nonetheless picked Reddin for his overall depth and breadth. As deputy chief, Fisk will expand...
...Parker sends two warning letters each semester to delinquent freshmen. This year, he was also forced to extend the exam period deadline to February 1. Still some 40 freshmen failed to meet the PT requirement...