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...Donald Anthony, who had 20 fire engines in place waiting for police escorts. To law-enforcement strategists like Beene, the long delay was fatal. "You think one hour isn't very long? One hour in a crowd situation is like weeks or months," he said. Says L.A. County sheriff Sherman Block: "It's my belief that a show of force at ((the intersection where the riot started)) might not have stopped everything but certainly would have had a significant impact...
...foreign culture. The mental muscles they build from concentrating hard in their Japanese-taught classes make them stronger in other subjects as well. Some of the most enthusiastic proponents are the English-language teachers exposed to the Japanese-taught students. Says Great Falls third-grade teacher Roberta Sherman: "It's a class from heaven. They go beyond what I expect...
Winks drew inspiration from an earlier Americanbook, J. Prince's Sketches of EminentShoemakers, published in Boston in 1848.Prince reports that Roger Sherman, Connecticutsigner of the Declaration of Independence andConstitution, began life as a shoemakers. Whileserving on an appropriations committee during theRevolutionary War, Sherman uncovered fraud in anarmy shoe contract and proved his case byspecifying the market price of the leather andworkmanship. Prince argues, "This incident willserve to illustrate the advantage which may oftenbe derived from the election of practicalmen to fill the office of legislators." (Hisitalics...
Fine Arts Department Chair John K. G. Sherman,who is Boardman professor of Fine Arts, saidKoerner's tenure offer represents a much-neededchange in the department's treatment of assistantand associate professors...
Cancellation of the bomber would be the latest blow to California's struggling aerospace and defense industry, which accounted for 15% of the state's economy in the late 1960s but only about 7% today. "The average worker has been laid off and called back many times," says Bonnie Sherman, a vocational counselor for jobless defense employees in Southern California. "They used to say, 'That's O.K., I'll run over to Northrop or Hughes.' But the government isn't giving these corporations the contracts they are used to," she adds. "We're in a peace economy...