Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortunately, more and 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...
EUROPE is shaken and unsettled. The sudden presence of 275,000 Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia has provoked a pervading sense of unease from Helsinki to Rome, tipped the military balance of power on the Continent in favor of the Warsaw Pact, and raised continuing worries about the reasonableness of the Soviet leaders...
...Moscow's Pushkin Square was thronged with workers heading homeward for their evening borsch. Suddenly two pacifists, an American girl and an Englishman, appeared and began handing out leaflets in Russian urging the startled recipients to take "any peaceful action in your power" to bring about the withdrawal of Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops from Czechoslovakia...
...Indian Ocean for the first time last winter, and only last week the helicopter carrier Moskva turned up in the Mediterranean. That, declared U.S. Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, is "visible evidence of Russia's announced intention to be come a modern major offensive sea power...
...start getting involved in partisan politics, it would greatly diminish my ministry." But if he ever does switch to political crusades, his views would resemble those of his friend the candidate. Like Nixon, Graham considers that the Supreme Court has "gone too far" in favoring criminals. He supports Black Power, but only if it means "a feeling of self-respect," not violence or civil disobedience. He believes that the demonstrators at the Democratic Convention in Chicago (where he also gave an invocation) were "wonderful kids, idealists-but manipulated by a small, well-organized hard core that wanted a confrontation...