Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncontested ranking of toughest talking big-city cop in the U.S. Today's police chiefs generally take a less inflammatory public stand as they try to deal with intractable urban crime. Ed Davis' gunsmoke rhetoric revives memories of Birmingham's Bull Connor and his L.A. predecessor Bill Parker, who once said that as far as he was concerned any suspect picked up was guilty until proven innocent...
Relations between British Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher and her ousted predecessor, Ted Heath, are as frosty as ever, but the two Conservatives do have one thing in common. Both like to be photographed in yachting hats at the helm of a boat. Ocean-Racer Heath, however, need fear no competition from Thatcher, who last week on holiday was content to be aboard the twin-engine Melita on the placid canals of Brittany. "It really is so important to keep a boat tidy," counseled the Tories' First Lady. "Any housewife will tell you, the smaller the space, the more important...
...members of these unions are generally more highly paid than Gotbaum's municipal workers, they would be hurt the most by the arrangement. Their members are also the most restive; in fact, Maye, a boisterous former Golden Gloves boxer, was recently voted into office partly because his predecessor was not sufficiently militant. Said the Patrolmen's McFeeley: "The two decisions I had to choose from were 1) to sell out my membership and 2) to sell out my membership with my blessing." Neither he nor the other balking union leaders threatened a strike, though the devastation that could...
...think "So what?" But the government has this habit of going to work every day, and things are happening. Frank Sargent, DuKakis' liberal Republican predecessor, left the incoming administration saddled with a deficit of roughly $760 million in a budget of $3.3 billion. The state of Massachusetts is in almost as bad a situation as New York City--worse in terms of options for the future--so if there were ever an opportunity and a ready-made rationale for change, you would think this was it. Many expected just that, Dukakis, who distinguished himself as a somewhat cool and analytical...
...suggests Tarden, the protagonist of Jerzy Kosinski's Cockpit. If Tarden is indeed a creature from some other writer's galaxy, that author is manifestly Dostoyevsky. For like his predecessor, Kosinski explores the classic antinomies of rationality-and of experience that defeats reason and mocks humanity...