Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks later, she and eleven others met to compare notes. When the numbers were totaled up, the results were surprising enough to touch off a public debate. "The streets of downtown Boston are a treeless wasteland," began a story at the top of the Globe's front page. The Parks Department had to admit it had no idea how bad the situation was. Almost 75 per cent of the city's streets had no shade...
...hockey players flew to Philadelphia Saturday and beat the Penn varsity, 6-3, before a crowd conservatively estimated at 10,000. Penn next year enters the Ivy League and many think the Quakers will replace Dartmouth as the league's soft touch...
...aldermen, ecclesiastics and industrialists at the Guildhall. Ahead in Fashion. Kosygin dined on pheasant laid out on Sèvres china at dinner for 56 in Buckingham Palace, where everyone, including Queen Elizabeth, came in informal clothes in deference to the Soviet Premier's liking for the common touch. Kosygin addressed both Houses of Parliament in the opulently decorated Royal Gallery of the Lords, proposing a "treaty of friendship, cooperation and nonaggression" with Britain. On a side trip to Scotland, he saw a soccer match at Kilmarnock, dined at the stylish golf resort of Troon. Returning to London...
Pecking Order. As a result, the L.A. cops patrol almost entirely in cars rather than pounding a beat on foot, and lose touch with people in the process. Hurtling to one crime call after another, police sometimes seem to view Negroes and Mexicans (24% of the populace) through the eyes of an occupation army. Only 4% of the force are Negroes, compared with 13.5% of the population. By comparison, of New York City's regular, transit and housing police, 9% are Negroes, v. 15% of the population. The minorities seem sometimes in the grip of an anti-cop mystique...
...events are as tight in the field house as they are on paper, things will be settled in the relays, the final two events of the meet. Harvard has one of the top two-mile relay squads in the nation, and neither of the other two teams can touch...