Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan this week asked the City Council to appropriate $18,000 for the study, which would take about six months. It would examine a wide variety of police matters, including the force's size, the distribution of its patrol routes, community relations, training procedures, and morale...
South Viet Nam's political crisis slowed up the war effort-at least on the ground. Military land action decreased 20% last week, largely because many Vietnamese units were either transferred from field positions to watch-and-patrol duty in the restless cities or preferred not to launch any new attacks while the situation in Saigon was uncertain...
Tough Talk. It was a few months later, while on patrol in Viet Nam's Central Highlands, that Sadler's short combat career was ended. He fell on a Viet Cong-planted punji pole, suffered an infection that left one leg scarred and partially numb. He returned Stateside, talking both tough ("You get a sort of satisfaction out of a good shot, leading a man running across a field and bringing him down") and tenderly ("We're overgrown social workers"). Mostly, though, he preferred not to talk at all except in his songs...
...which men to train for combat, which for jobs behind the lines. The Pentagon must decide which units to send to Viet Nam, which to noncombat areas. Leaders in Viet Nam must decide which units to send into combat. The platoon leader must decide which squad to send on patrol. I don't think it too much to ask the educator to do his job and grade his students according to their ability...
...Williamston Kid: the $123,400 Florida Derby for three-year-olds; at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Fla. A 90-1 long shot that had not won a race this year, Williamston Kid actually finished second, a neck behind Abe's Hope. But after 15 minutes of studying patrol films, the stewards disqualified Abe's Hope for interfering with another horse, and lucky bettors with tickets on the bay colt collected $183.60 for every...