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...security force was beefed up from 36 to 48 men over the last year, and reported crime dropped by 30%. At Berkeley, crime plummeted after officials improved campus lighting, hired additional police and sent students a memorandum warning: "Don't hitchhike ... Female students are encouraged to carry a shrill whistle ... Don't go alone at night-traveling in twos is better, in a group best." Thus the best way to avoid becoming a campus crime victim is to adopt strategies that have become all too familiar to residents of large cities...
...infant in Manhattan's Harlem Hospital was smaller than most newborn babies, and his cry was unusually shrill and high-pitched. Within several days after birth, his tormented wails became incessant. His sweating body shook and twitched. Occasionally he vomited. If his condition had gone undiagnosed and untreated, the baby might have suffered a convulsion, which could have been fatal, or have died a slower death by dehydration. But the signs have become all too familiar to inner-city doctors. The child's mother was a narcotics addict, and he was suffering withdrawal from the "habit" forced upon...
...flesh hangs on an aged frame. His mouth sags. His palsied right hand sometimes shakes so badly that he must grip it in his left. His voice, always shrill, is strained and thin. Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde-known more familiarly as Francisco Franco and el Caudillo (the Leader)-turns 80 this week, a pinnacle granted few world leaders. The man who has ruled Spain since 1939 planned to celebrate quietly in Madrid's elegant Pardo Palace, where he lives with his wife Carmen Polo de Franco, 72, amid Goya tapestries, Velásquez paintings...
BOND CAN HEAR the shrill voice of the angry black man and sympathetically defends it, while setting his own pace, marching to a somewhat different drummer. "The language of the Panthers is often shocking to those accustomed to the ordinary expressions of political figures," Bond says, "but we might as well get used to it for it expresses the sentiments of a vast section of oppressed Americans." Bond pulls no punches even on the homefolk, if he sees a need to hit hard. He chastises the Panthers severely, arguing that their program should be more substantive than "woofing at policemen...
...regular feature in the liberal New Republic by John Osborne, continued its tradition of cool, objective observation of White House activity. No fan of Nixon's, Osborne nonetheless admired the effectiveness of the Republican campaign strategy: "It is McGovern, not Nixon, who has been driven to the harsh and shrill extremes that have been Nixon trademarks." Watching Nixon deflect questions on Watergate, Osborne grudgingly commended "a display of mixed gall and skill that I've never seen equaled." He also noted and deplored the effect on reporters of the "mesmerizing power of the presidency...