Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this, they face the united opposition of the great mass between the extremes. Every citizen has a valid right to demand that his government provide security for his person and his property. This is perhaps the public's first civil right. No responsible element quarrels with it. It is ironic that law and order, at best the glory of any society and at least an unobjectionable cliche, should have turned into a controversy. Partly it has happened because many vocal protesters put forth the old but troubling idea that, in certain circumstances, law and order must be defied...
...more police departments now use psychiatrists or psychologists to screen applicants. The results are sometimes startling. In Chicago, between 1961 and 1963, an "excessive number" of applicants rejected for patrolman suffered from paranoia. "There is something about police power that attracts to its ranks a particular kind of person," explains Dr. Abrams, a member of the examining team. "It gives them an umbrella to legitimatize their pathology. They can act out their problems and be rewarded...
...patrol car reported seeing a third person atop the crane after the pair descended, but after watching and calling for half an hour, the police decided the object was a rag. The patrol cars and hook and ladder truck then went their ways...
...gang is what makes life bearable. "'...we're all really the same person.'" Paul said, "'We're just four parts of the one...we make up together The Mates.'" The boys composing or recording seem at one level to be the boys just larking about, but larking with an infinite devotion to their games, and a sure sense of which part of the playing to preserve for others...
...Congressman John Moss recently pointed out, "are nearly as perfunctory as library-card renewals." And two weeks ago, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago dealt a heavy setback to two important requirements dictated by the fairness doctrine. One of those requirements provided that any station broadcasting a "personal attack" on someone in an editorial or news documentary must notify that person and offer him time to reply. The other held that any station endorsing or opposing a political candidate must allow the other candidates to reply. In suits brought by CBS, NBC and the Radio Television News Directors...