Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tiger Makes Out. On the dark streets of Manhattan, a neurotic off-duty postman (Eli Wallach) goes on the prowl. Tired of being a second-class male, he decides to turn himself into a parcel of sexual energy. Mumbling to pretty girls as they pass, he ends every sentence with a proposition-and remains ignored. In manic desperation, he zeroes in on a likely target, claps a raincoat over her head, and spirits her away to his apartment...
Rise of Hyphenates. Freelancers are always on the prowl for ways to supplement their income. The best way, they have found, is to write books. "The good people who used to write for magazines," says Literary Agent Perry Knowlton, "are in tremendous demand from book publishers. Naturally, they move on." Despite the fact that he was making $50,000 a year as a magazine freelancer, Ernest Havemann is taking time out for a couple of years to write a textbook on psychology. By writing such books as Madison Avenue, USA, The Schools, and more recently The Lawyers, Martin Mayer...
...time guards cost even more than vandals, so schools are turning to mechanical protection devices such as Chicago's ingenious sound-wave system, whose disruption lights lamps, sets off bells and sirens and alerts everybody in the neighborhood. Because this is so expensive, Chicago generally uses a $12 "Prowl Alarm" that greets intruders with an unearthly howl. But Chicago authorities would prefer putting police dogs in every school...
...assemblyman, protecting the local grocery that he had owned for years, shot a 17-year-old Negro looter to death. White and Negro vandals burned and looted in Louisville. Philadelphia's Mayor James Tate declared a state of limited emergency as rock-throwing Negro teen-agers pelted police prowl cars. A dozen youths looted a downtown Miami pawnshop and ran off with 20 rifles, leaving other merchandise untouched. Some 200 Negroes in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., smashed downtown store windows. In Arizona, 1,500 National Guard members were alerted when sniper fire and rock throwing broke out in Phoenix...
...madness. Waterloo's Negroes make up only 8% of the population, are well integrated into the schools, and enjoy an unemployment rate of a minimal 2.3% (well below the current national average of 4%). But trouble exploded anyway. A young Negro, in full view of a prowl car, deliberately knocked down an old white man who was sweeping the sidewalk in front of a tavern. His arrest touched off yet another 48 hours of rioting by Negro youths-to the perplexity of their elders. Said Albert Morehead, 68, a Mississippi-reared Negro who takes pride in the symbols...