Word: rods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consider these questions, and their position on the issue of Soc Rel 148/149, before casting their vote next Tuesday. We invite any faculty member to attend the meeting of this section on Monday, from one to three o'clock in the Brooks Parlor, Phillips Brooks House. Gary Welch Rod Rouzer Duncan McCrann Matthew Naitone W. David McCollum Thomas LaFarge Marshall Mittnick Jon Stolzenberg Judy Kauffman Brook Baker Susan Nichols Cleveland Bigelow III Amy Brodky Sylvia Lester Ted Rumsey
Pointed at the suspect like a dowser's divining rod, the weapon works on two simple principles: speed and pressure. Before the offender can escape, or if he resists arrest, the sticks are clamped around his arm, wrist or hand. The cords act as a hinge. If he resists, the arresting officer merely squeezes the sticks, inducing severe, immobilizing pain. Either way, no permanent injury is usually inflicted because the pain will subdue the offender before any physical damage occurs...
...York Rangers' Rod Gilbert, for example, explains that from his right-wing position "with a straight stick and a fast play the shot will slide off my stick like a golfer's slice. But with the curved stick I can hold the puck a second longer, have better control when I fake the goalie, and then whip it into the corner with the left-hand spin and know it won't trail off." Other players say that the sickle stick helps them to scoop the puck off the boards and, by cradling it inside the curve, shield...
France, 1952. The country has changed, but the sergeant is the same: a psychotic homosexual who hides his desires from the world-and from himself-beneath a barrage of bluster. In the title role of The Sergeant, Rod Steiger continues his obvious fascination with the deviate character. Where he was the screaming, mincing Mr. Joyboy in The Loved One, and a coronation of closet queens in No Way to Treat a Lady, he is here appropriately disciplined as the doomed Sergeant Callan...
...eager to recruit Jackson that he was willing to forego the gain of a Senate seat. Jackson, however, was advised by fellow Democrats that he would be foolish to surrender 16 years of seniority for the politically hazardous post of Defense Secretary, where he could become a lightning rod for criticism from his own party. Jackson withdrew a week before Nixon wanted to announce the Cabinet...