Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uptight. Instead of lashing out, the Sausalito cop is now apt to ask coolly: "What do you want to go and provoke me for?" Significantly, no one has lodged a complaint against Sausalito police in two years. Their hostilities under control, the men are also freer to focus on serious crimes-residential burglaries and auto thefts have been cut in half. In similar sessions with local citizens, Houston cops are trying hard to understand minority-group problems...
...three different ways. Under this plan, a "community service officer," often a youth from the ghetto, would perform minor investigative chores, rescue cats, and keep in touch with combustible young people. A police officer, one step higher, would control traffic, hold back crowds at parades, and investigate more serious crimes. A police agent, the best-trained, best-educated man on the ladder, would patrol high-crime areas, respond to delicate racial situations, and take care of tense confrontations...
...advance that such a resolution was "not a very practical proposition." U.S. Representative George Ball concurred. In what turned out to be one of his last state ments before resigning (see THE NATION), Ball judged the Secretary General's comments "in no way helpful in furthering the serious and sensitive negotiations now in progress...
...Salazar, the victim of a massive stroke, clung to life. But the 79-year-old dictator had been in a coma for ten days, and his doctors had informed President Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomás that he would never recover sufficiently to resume office. Faced with a serious drift in government affairs and rumors that the military might step in, Tomás finally called on Caetano to form a government...
Equally pleased was Riverside's dean of students, Norman Better, who counted 35 requests for room changes after the first week last year, only five so far this semester. Incompatibility of roommates, he claims, is more serious than many college officials realize. More than 8% of Riverside's 1,200 dorm residents switched roommates last year and "at least twice that many wanted to move but were persuaded to stick it out." Even when switches are made, he says, "the one who is left feels rejected." He recalled a case last year in which one boy with...