Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before leaving to deliver that address, Johnson showed his statement to Lady Bird. She changed a few words, then kept the statement. Johnson, convinced that Congress would give short shrift to his legislative program if he announced his withdrawal at that time, had once again deferred the decision...
Required by the city government to attend, some Houston police grumbled, read paperbacks or worked crossword puzzles during initial sessions. At the time, Police Chief Herman Short, a tough traditionalist, helped little with snide remarks about "slobbering sociologists." But as the meetings progressed, he apologized for the slur, and even uncooperative officers began venting their feelings. At one meeting a veteran police sergeant blurted, "I've hated niggers all my life, and every time I see a car with a Texas Southern University* sticker on it I'm going to harass the hell out of that driver...
...week course, for which they are paid $54 each, the police fill out unsigned questionnaires. Thus far, 19 rated the course excellent, 92 very good, 253 good. Only 74 graded it either poor or a waste of time-or refused to fill out the survey form. And even Chief Short admits that he is pleased with the results. By late fall, all 1,400 of Houston's police will, as Short puts it, "have gotten a closer look at the people." Already Sikes has received reports from the city's Negro districts of increased courtesy and assistance...
...smashing no fewer than twelve U.S. and N.C.A.A. marks Zorn clocked a phenomenal 45.3 sec in the 100-yd. freestyle, and Burton became the first man ever to crack 16 mm. in the 1,650-yd. freestyle. Yet even those performances may pale this week when the A.A.U. short-course championships get under way in Greenville N.C., and a teen-ager from Santa Clara' Calif., hits the water...
...Jones's deputy, rules both Augusta National and the Masters tournament with an iron hand. "We don't want to look at the ugly things the year round." No tennis courts, no swimming pool, no children's playgrounds adorn the Augusta National-nothing, in short, to detract from golf...