Word: proving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carefully adjusted, like a Herman Kahn scenario, to the size of the disturbance?enough force to smother trouble quickly, but not enough to provoke greater resentment. In each division, half the patrol cars are always tagged for response to special riot alert; if the cars of one division should prove inadequate to halt a disturbance, half the cars in the city can be on the move within minutes. If half the department still cannot keep control, nearly the entire uniformed force of 4,000 can be mobilized for duty. Los Angeles' basic formula of speed and superior force is being...
...Franco, 75, might pick to fill the long-vacant throne. Monarchist activists pin their hopes on exiled Pretender Don Juan, 55, a moderate who favors evolution toward parliamentary democracy. Many Falangist regulars lean toward his son, Juan Carlos, 30, in the belief that the carefully schooled younger man would prove willing to stick with the regime's less flexible principles...
...over whelming to mixed couples, and the danger of emotional damage can be considerable. Georgia Herrick, 26, an editorial assistant in Manhattan, blames herself for the breakup of her own six-months'-love affair with a Negro. "In the beginning," she said, "I was trying to prove something to myself, a reaffirmation of the liberal beliefs I had been brought up under." The beliefs didn't carry her far enough. The one time that her black beau took her to a Negro hangout, she found "the language was incredible. But he couldn't say anything because then...
...have no hang-ups, that we have enough sense and our heads are in the right place." And when it is a case of true love, the reaction can be fiery. Says Seattle Negro Musician Ernie Hatfield, 18, of his white fiancee: "We're not trying to prove anything. We love each other, that's all. To me Linda is Linda, my girl. If you don't feel this coming, man, you're way out of step...
H.P.B.-as she is known to her followers-was a large and lusty adventuress who rolled her own cigarettes, gave birth to at least one illegitimate son, and stage-managed seances to "prove" her claims to supernatural powers. Granddaughter of a Russian princess, she was married off to a czarist general at the age of 16, but deserted him after three months and eventually showed up in Cairo as a psychic medium. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1874, she took up with a former Civil War staff colonel named Henry Steel Olcott, persuaded him to help her found...