Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Personnel Records Unit that catalogues each cop's skills, hobbies and qualifications on an IBM card, can in minutes mechanically thumb 24,000 cards and flick out names of policemen who understand Tagalog or Tonkinese or deaf-mute sign language, who are tall enough (6 ft. 3 in.) to form an honor guard for England's visiting Queen Elizabeth II, who know bees well enough (twelve do) to handle the swarm that appeared suddenly last month in Brooklyn...
...Check the Wool." During this summer's siege against juvenile delinquency, a key police department unit is the youth squad, 144 detectives who cruise New York City's five boroughs in unmarked sedans and concentrate on teen-age activities and spots of action. Routinely the youth squad checks bars for underage patrons, community centers, parks, dances and picnics for teen-age trouble. Swiftly they check out tips on approaching "rumbles," i.e., fights between New York's organized gangs. After one such tour with Deputy Inspector Peter Costello, youth squad commander, and Detectives William Kelly and Frank Rochman...
...November 1955, Krim claims, one of Soustelle's Moslem agents got in touch with an F.L.N. officer and proposed to establish a decoy unit within the F.L.N. itself. The French were prepared to provide guns and money for the unit, which would appear to be loyal to the F.L.N. by day, but would actually fight the F.L.N. by night. For nearly a year Krim and some of his subordinates strung the French along, fought ferocious mock battles amongst themselves at night, and to provide casualties, left the imaginary battlefields strewn with what Krim describes as executed "traitors" dressed...
Almost as arresting as the nirvana caterpillar was a weird, 12-ft. high representation of the cell, basic unit of life, presented by Kalamazoo's Upjohn Co. Its shell was a fantastic latticework of clear plastic tubes. Inside were equally ingenious, sausage-shaped plastic gadgets representing mitochondria and fat globules. There was also a gaudy red nucleus, like a gang of tortured octopuses outdoing Laocoön's serpents, with centrosomes that made it look as though it had just landed from outer space...
...baby's soiled diapers. In many cases the brighter-and sometimes the more incongruous-the package, the greater the appeal. California's Thoro-fed Dog Food watched sales jump 40% when it wrapped Fido's dinner in gleaming gold foil. Among the new gimmicks: multiple-unit "specials," with three, six and twelve items in a pack. One Midwest chain reports that it sold only nine cans of sauerkraut a week at a dime apiece, but 441 cans priced at ten cans for $1. A West Coast petfood packer sells more three-can packages priced at 29? than...