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...grant programs; to work for the criminal administration planning committees which state governors are setting up in response to the recent request of the President. Police departments are beginning to see the advantage of employing house counsel as well as others from the social and behavioral sciences, and I predict that whenever energetic and imaginative people occupy these jobs, they will be enormously influential in helping the police break out of their present isolation...
...There are too many instances where police here have been trying to teach manners instead of enforce the law," maintains one Negro lawyer). It is, as much as anything, that police behavior can be utterly capricious, that an officer can be brutal or civil, that it is impossible to predict which one he will be, that to his superiors, it is apparently all the same. In Birmingham, moreover, the predilection has too often been towards brutality; Negroes no longer wish to take chances...
...united the Weather Bureau, Coast & Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of Standards' Central Radio Propagation Laboratory, creating a 10,000-man agency under the Department of Commerce. As envisioned by President Johnson, it is to "provide a single national focus for our efforts to describe, understand and predict the state of the oceans, the state of the lower and upper atmosphere, and the size and shape of the earth...
...traffic violations to his religious affiliations, from his military service to his credit rating. Those who resent this computer snoopery decry it as "a great, expensive, electronic garbage pail" that defiles every American's right to keep his private life private. Representative Gallagher goes so far as to predict that private homes will have to take the same precautions that embassies are forced to take now: "The essential ingredients of life will be carried on in soundproof, peep-proof, prefabricated rooms where, hopefully, no one will be able to spy, but where life won't be worth living...
Before man makes significantly greater strides in influencing weather, he must learn to predict it more accurately. The satellites are proving vastly helpful in this task by photographing huge areas of the earth and its atmosphere, and computers have made it possible to handle and evaluate data fast enough to predict weather accurately for days in advance. Because far more information about the weather is still needed, the World Meteorological Organization will next year inaugurate a "World Weather Watch" using Tiros and Nimbus satellites and a network of 250 land and sea stations. Even more accurate observation is envisioned...