Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. William Parker, 64, a tough, abstemious career cop who earned a night school law degree and rose in the Los Angeles Police Department to become its chief in 1950, a post in which he built one of the finest, most efficient forces in the U.S. but became a target of criticism from Negro and other minority groups that reached a crescendo during his handling of the Watts riots last year; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Best of Everything was rated just about the worst of anything when it first attempted to cram Hope Lange, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer and Joan Crawford into Rona Jaffe's bestselling novel about girls who get their jobs through the New York Times and their kicks from Modern Romances. Now that it's dated, it's too funny to miss...
...dicta. Denver's Police Chief Harold Dill said that the decision was "nothing earthshaking. We generally follow that pattern anyway." Said Atlanta's Chief of Detectives Clinton Chafin: "We've been operating that way for some time now." Los Angeles' able and crusading Chief William Parker, who has often complained bitterly that the courts are hamstringing his men, said 'that the decision will not require any changes in his department...
Spring was a little chilly this year for Harry Parker, coach of the Harvard varsity crew: with only two men back from last year's heavyweight eight that swept five straight college races, the Crimson's 106th rowing season figured to be, well, crimson. Imagine Parker's surprise when his young (five sophomores, two juniors) crew went through its first three races undefeated, then won the Eastern Sprint championships-defeating Archrival Yale twice, once in a preliminary heat, again in the finals. Imagine Yale's surprise. "They really aren't that good," insisted Bulldog Oarsman...
...sport which enlists almost total dedication is crew, in which Parker has developed an unsurpassed tradition. There have been as many as eight seniors among nine letter winners and as few as two, but there never have been underclass letter winners one year who don't return the next season...