Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steven W. Raudenbush '68, a member of the SDS Labor Committee, who spends fifteen hours a week outside a hospital, described the early groundwork for putting together the fifth column: "You try to talk to people as they come to work. Usually, I start by asking them if they've heard of the union at Jewish Memorial. Often they just say 'yes' or 'no' and walk on. That doesn't necessarily mean they aren't interested: it's cold or they're in a hurry. You have to expect to go slow. You have to let them take the initiative...
...Parker was a crusty law-enforcement fundamentalist who spent 16 years building the Los Angeles Police Department into one of the best known, best paid and least corrupt in the U.S. There was a price though: a chilly distance between the cops and the slum Negroes that helped to start the 1965 Watts riots. When Parker died at 64 last July, Los Angeles set out to find a successor skilled in "community relations"-the art of enlisting citizens to help prevent crime, rather than relying on repression after it happens. Last week the city found its man in Thomas...
Speed in the trials is a far different thing from speed over 24 brutal hours of competition around a 3.81-mile track with 13 gear shifts per lap. Hardly an hour after the start, one of the Mark IIs turned into the pits with a ruined transmission. To their horror, Ford mechanics discovered that the output shaft had broken because the steel was improperly tempered-which meant that the shafts in all six company Fords were probably faulty as well, along with the nine replacements in the pits. Sure enough, one by one the other Fords dropped out. Finally...
...lightweights wrestle first. That can have two effects: either they mentally relax because of 'last-ditch performances, or they feel a responsibility to start each match with quick victories. Harvard's lightweights go for the pins...
...great to start a snowball going," Naylor says. To have a meet go down to the final heavyweight match is "fine as far as spectators go, but the spectators are not the guys wrestling...