Word: unites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sparingly, mesmerizing consenting witnesses is on the increase as a police investigative tool. The Los Angeles Police Department has worked with the technique since 1970. Noting its success, Psychologist Martin Reiser, head of the L.A.P.D.'S behavioral-sciences services, decided last year to set up a special hypnosis unit, the first in the U.S. Kroger and nine other medical hypnotists trained 14 L.A.P.D. officers in the technique, which dates back at least to ancient Egypt. Says L.A.P.D. Captain Richard Sandstrom, who is currently evaluating the work of the force's new Svengali Squad: "Hypnosis gives utterly fantastic results...
...battle tactic based on the shape of a buffalo's head. Stamping their feet, beating on their shields with their assegais and roaring the war cry usutu!, the warrior impis, arrayed like the right and left horns of the buffalo, would begin encircling the foe. Then the main unit-the head-would sweep forward so that the Zulus could use their assegais in close combat. During the twelve years before he was assassinated by his brother in 1828, Shaka built a Zulu empire that extended over hundreds of thousands of square miles and contained some 2 million inhabitants...
...President took his video-tape unit to Kansas City to continue rehearsing right up to the beginning of the roll call of the states on Wednesday night. Practice made perfect-or almost. Concluded a satisfied Hartmann: "If he had two weeks to work on every speech, they'd all be that good...
There were no serious casualties one day in mid-1954, so 34-year-old Captain David Ralph Millard Jr., assigned to a 1st Marine Division medical unit in South Korea, had time at day's end to ponder one aspect of his chosen specialty: plastic surgery. Among the Korean youngsters around the base were many with cleft lips. Dr. Millard set a series of photographs of them on an easel, and while studying them he dozed off. He awoke with a start, looked at them from a new direction, and then the inspiration came: what he (and generations...
...Leading Man Robert Stephens was less harmonious. The actor was fired from the cast and told that Taylor had cited poor "chemistry" between the two as the reason. "Bad chemistry?" retorted Stephens. "We're actors, not pharmacists." Taylor, meanwhile, sang a different song about Stephens' dismissal. "The unit manager was the one who spoke to him. If I find out he has put the blame on me, there will be one unit manager less." Now for her next number...