Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Restlessness & Frustration. Almost two years after seizing power, ex-army general Ongania, 53, thus recognized the sad condition into which Argentina has fallen-and moved to stop the decline. Thirty years ago, his country was ranked among the world's developed nations; today, the World Bank classifies it as underdeveloped. The economy is only inching along, and unemployment is up to 8%. The state-owned railroads are losing $1,000,000 a day. To pay its bills and meet its huge deficits, the government is constantly printing more money and, in turn, inflating an already bloated cost of living...
...Michele Ray, her next stop, she says, is Hanoi...
...Scourby quality, says Warren, is "warmth and appeal." His voice is at once "distinguished, melodic, mellifluous, the kind that makes people stop and listen." It does so in a soft, unobtrusive, untheatrical way. It bespeaks intelligence and money-old money. His agent, Fifi Oscard, calls it "upscale," an ad-game adjective that evokes the top social and economic strata...
...some things. I said we should use dogs to accompany men on the beat. And I said I wanted the force in high-crime areas to carry shotguns. And I said I wanted to concentrate men in these high-crime areas, and that I wanted them to use the stop-and-frisk law more." Word of his crackdown reached the press, and suddenly he found he had struck a deep, responsive chord throughout the U.S. He received, by his count, 8,000 letters and telegrams. Only 22 were disapproving...
There have been incidents-particularly growing out of the increased stop-and-frisk activity. One 17-year-old Negro was allegedly stripped to his underwear and dangled by his heels from a bridge by two policemen who accused him of carrying a knife. Headley acted fast; both were dismissed the next day and last week were indicted by a federal grand jury. "These men abused their authority," says Headley, "and I won't stand for that...