Word: vigilanteism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard must take it upon itself to remedy a situation in which patronage is permissible. All appointments should be open to application from all qualified people, and availability of open posts should be publicized. Every appointment should be subject to close scrutiny by a vigilant public, aware of its rights...
WAR WITH CHINA. You will have against you a country of almost a thousand million people, the like of which has never yet gone to war in the history of the world. The time span since 1949 [when the Communists took power] has not been long enough for the population...
Decent citizens attempted legal and political action, but to no avail. It was the Garden Club, vigilant and resourceful, which provided a solution. It simply sent observers to record the license plate numbers of cars seen at the parlor, looked up the owners' names and telephoned the wives of the...
Slow Reform. The expanding spectrum of recruiting abuses exasperates Veteran Penn State Football Coach Joe Paterno. "Recruiting is demeaning," he says. "The N.C.A.A. has not in any way met its responsibility in policing recruiting rules." But what can be done? Paterno suggests that the N.C.A.A. should follow the "vigilant example...
The system could be made more efficient, police say, by switching to color TV for a better picture, putting in zoom lenses and using video tape so that a record of a crime could be produced in court. Even in their unimproved state, the cameras have aroused the fears of...