Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Often they are justified, for appallingly few U.S. cops are trained in riot control. In Newark, well-drilled state troopers took over in many places from the ineffective city police and National Guardsmen. During Cleveland's 1966 eruption, cops with inadequate training were alternately too lenient and too rough with the rampaging residents of Hough. New York's 28,000-man force, more than twice as big as any other in the nation, is also among the most thoroughly drilled in riot control. Commissioner Howard Leary was hired from Philadelphia after his men contained a potentially disastrous riot...
...usually mixed. Several violent codes combine a functional purpose with an emotional mystique. This was true of the aristocratic dueling code, which served to maintain a social hierarchy that became enshrouded in trappings of honor and death. It is true of the city gang, which functions as a rough and ready community but also includes a mystique in which violence is equated with courage and crime with merit. It is, finally, true of revolutionary ideology, which combines the brutal but often practical belief that only violence can pull down the existing order through a crude poetry about the purifying properties...
...church services, and later, the honky-tonk music of the Newark, N.J., dives where he danced for pennies as a boy. At eight, he took to the piano and started "beautifying" the hymns he learned from his mother. He went professional at 14, working his way up in a rough saloon world of pimps, pickpockets, conmen and gamblers...
Nobody, of course, is hypnotized into gambling, and illegal gambling flourishes today because the customers are there. Once considered either the elegant pastime of the rich or the grubby escape of the poor, it is now virtually classless. Who plays which game? Dealers and other psychologists offer only rough generalizations: competitive types favor man-against-man games such as blackjack; intellectual types and women more passive pursuits such as roulette; craps, with its rattles, pitches and shouts of "Baby needs shoes!" attracts the assertive male. As for horseplayers, according to one sociologist, about 60% are lower- and middle-class...
...supersonic flight; in the West, only the French Mirage III-V and the British P.1127 have a comparable performance. The Russians also showed off a new swing-wing fighter, similar in design to the controversial U.S. F-111 (originally known as the TFX), that was designed to operate from rough, short runways. All the new fighter-bombers in the flyby were equipped with auxiliary engines for quick take-offs from short, unsurfaced fields...