Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Save Lives. Finally, at week's end, he became the first presidential candidate to outline a step-by-step plan for peace in Viet Nam. The scheme was forthright and eminently reasonable, if perhaps too optimistic about what could be expected from the Communists. It at least gave the voters a clear insight into the candidate's thoughts on the issue. The plan's four stages...
Undoubtedly, the nation's police are better today than they ever were in the past. But manifestly they are not good enough. For every step forward, there have been two steps backward in the growth of slum populations; for every advance in understanding of minorities, there have been two retreats in growing ghetto resentment and despair. Widespread corruption is by no means a thing of the past. A study prepared for the President's crime commission, leaked this month, claimed that in ghetto areas of three cities?Chicago, Boston and Washington?27% of the police regularly committed offenses that would...
...often he also has the attitudes of 100 years ago. While the best police heads have made strides in instilling professionalism in their forces, others, as in Boston, Pittsburgh and Memphis, have not taken even the first step. Few have recognized that in the turbid inner cities more than efficiency is needed, that the cop must indeed be a man of many parts. Among the few: New York's Howard Leary, Washington's Patrick Murphy, Atlanta's Herbert Jenkins, St. Louis' Curtis Brostron. And, of course, Tom Reddin...
...policeman on the riot commission, is impatient with conventional attitudes. With no help from a state headed by racist Governor Lester Maddox, Jenkins keeps relative calm in one of the Deep South's fastest-growing cities. He hired the first Negro officers in 1948, an almost unheard-of step in the South at that time, and spoke up for Negroes long before riots made such talk politic. "If a police officer is so thin-skinned that he is afraid of being called a 'nigger lover' because he is doing his duty," Jenkins once said, "then...
...This step-by-step learning process can help a student pinpoint where he is having trouble...