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...responses raise any doubts about him, the candidate must go before a board of three psychiatrists. About 40% of the applicants each year are rejected because of either the psychological tests or a past record of instability turned up in a background check. At the police academy, the new recruit takes the California Test of Mental Maturity, the Watson-Glaser Judgmental Test, a Rorschach inkblot test, a picture-memory test and the Thematic Apperception Test. At any time during his training or six-month probationary period, a recruit's superior may order him to appear before the psychiatric board...
Invasion of Privacy. Many police chiefs believe that such tests are an invasion of an applicant's privacy. Small towns claim that they are too expensive (cost of testing and interviewing a single recruit in Portland, Ore.: $100). And even New York cops normally take no personality tests. Instead, a team of 74 investigators prepares personal histories of up to 40 pages on each candidate after weeks of interviews with people who know...
...Only then was it revealed that Big Bob was really an undercover cop, Robert Pierson, 35. Chicago police pointed ominously to such entries in Rubin's diary as a hand-drawn map of the Hilton Hotel area and a reflection that "we really should attend McCarthy rallies and recruit pro-McCarthys for our marches. This lends us the respectability of a pro-establishment group." Big Bob's duplicity did not faze Rubin, who said, when released on $2,500 bail: "Well, at least he was a good bodyguard...
...Cong division moved on the provincial capital of Tay Ninh. Hints of a major buildup there had been drifting in for about a month. Confirmation came when a South Vietnamese armor specialist showed up at a Chieu Hoi center for defectors. He reported that the Communists had tried to recruit him to drive one of the armored personnel carriers that they expected to capture in an attack on the town...
...considered too low for other candidates, and plan to give them special tutoring to help them catch up. Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx is giving free make-up courses between undergraduate college and med school. New York Medical College has set up a Medstart Committee to recruit interested Negroes and Puerto Ricans. New York University found itself this summer, for the first time in 30 years, with no Negroes in its entering class of 131, so it recruited four who may need tutoring in science. Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, with a class...