Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Mississippi Governor John Bell Williams, the 360 uniformed troopers of the Mississippi highway safety patrol are "professional officers-not hotheads." Yet last May, when they helped local police handle student demonstrations at predominantly black Jackson State College, the troopers did not bother to bring tear gas. Instead, they loaded their shotguns with 00 shot, the largest available. When the dust settled, a laconic voice came over the patrol's radio: "Better send an ambulance-we've got a few niggers down over here...
...sweltering heat of Jackson last week, a county grand jury concluded its three-week investigation of that shootout by exonerating the patrol and indicting two unidentified participants in the disturbance. Though FBI reports had shown no evidence of sniping and many observers regarded the demonstrators as merely unruly, the grand jury declared that the troopers "had a right and were justified" in firing the 400-round fusillade that killed two black youths. Asserted the panel: "When people take the law into their own hands and engage in civil disorders and riots, they must expect to be injured or killed when...
Thus when a Bucharest police patrol stopped several teen-agers last week and informed them that their long hair offended public morality, the youngsters sheepishly went along to a police barber who summarily sheared them. Later, when the police got around to examining the boys' documents, they found that one of them happened to be named Nicolae Ceauşescu, 18, student. "Father's profession?" asked the cop. "Oh, he's the secretary of a political party," the boy replied nonchalantly. After profuse apologies from the police, young Ceauşescu assured them that there were...
...they would not get only flavored water. Women began appearing on that once all-male mode of transport, the freight car. A petty thief, lacking a gun for a sudden job, knew that corruption was so rampant that he could borrow the needed weapon from a cop on patrol. At farm foreclosure sales, friends would gather, bid 10? for every item, scare others out of bidding more, then give everything back to the farmer. And in his mother's hotel, Terkel, then in his teens, sensed that the Depression had set in for keeps when he noticed the increased...
...Patrolled Heat. Nowhere in the U.S. economy are labor costs running farther ahead of productivity gains than in its largest industry, construction. Wage increases average about 21 % a year, and laborers in Connecticut, Missouri, Florida and Kansas have recently won pay increases of 30% a year. Under new contracts, lathers in Cleveland will earn $ 10.71 an hour by 1972, and cement masons $10.41. Success at the bargaining table seems only to have heightened construction labor's appetite for make-work arrangements. Detroit pipefitters require a "heat-patrol" 24 hours a day, seven days a week when temporary heat...