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...Department to finance his program. Enlisting police cooperation was no problem, but maintaining it proved more difficult. Police duty is traditionally defined as crime prevention and law enforcement-functions that take only 10% to 20% of a policeman's time. Among his many other duties-directing traffic, recovering stray pets and children, maintaining order-none is more thoroughly unpopular than intervening in personal quarrels...
Enter a newsboy, a stray woman, and a drunk. The boy screams, "Extra! Extra! Read all about it-Riots! Floods in Mississippi! Russian dog bites American man; atomic war in the making...
...numerable times to give opinions as complete and lengthy as edicts returned by our higher courts. You cannot smoke in the fencing room without offending fire marshals, the disciplinary committee, and sign painters. Coaches instructing players got argued with on certain points of technique. Little lost children and stray dogs visited briefly. Coach Marion consumed several sandwiches and a bag of doughnuts. Electronic gadgets rigged to register touches several times broke down beyond attendant Jock's understanding. Fencers, upon completing their individual duties, dressed hurriedly and departed for other amusements. There were those on the sidelines who envied them...
Ironically, to describe the new ideology of youthful alienation, Gerzon must draw heavily from the works of an older generation. This provides sorry comment on youth's intellectual contribution to its own dissent. Except for a stray quote from Simon and Garfunkel or Janis Ian, he must resort to synopses of Camus and Erikson...
Thus the search began for stray millions. The new program to share federal revenue with the states will be retained-but trimmed from $535 million to $500 million. The defense budget, already chopped heavily, will lose perhaps another $400 million. Even the Justice Department, which had previously escaped the economy wave, will undergo some minor pruning. All department heads were directed to report back within days on their savings proposals. The Democratic Congress, however, is not so vulnerable to presidential discipline. Capitol Hill is still rebelling against some Nixon austerity measures in the current budget year. Under the twin fears...