Word: wool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pull No Wool. Another encouraging development is the effective use of all-black or white-black "mod squad" patrols in the ghettoas in New York and Detroit. But New York's Eldridge Waith was chastised by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association for allowing himself to be frisked when he entered a church held by the Puerto Rican Young Lords, though by doing so Waith managed to help defuse a potentially dangerous situation. "We are not saying we are going to work with them," Waith notes, "but there's no doubt that in terms...
...nearly eight years as a New York City cop and is now a student at Harvard Law School. Says Grimes: "It's really a matter of communication." If black citizens "know where your heart is and that you really want to talk to them and not pull some wool over their eyes, then there's no problem." Grimes, who has written a master's thesis on "The Black Man and Law Enforcement," argues that assignment to black districts should be voluntary duty for the best-trained officers, who would get extra pay. "The black officer must...
...first time I saw Erich Segal was in the courtyard outside of Yale's Stiles College, where he is a Fellow. It was a passing view: he streaked by in track gear, wearing a wool cap and a blue plastic vest with orange reflecting panels...
...bride wore flowers and white satin when Michael Wilding, 17, son of Actress Elizabeth Taylor and her second husband, Actor Michael Wilding, married Beth Clutter, 19. Outside London's Caxton Hall Registry, a crowd of 500 gathered to goggle at the groom's mum (in white wool pants and a rink-sized diamond) and her husband, Richard Burton (in business suit and a new slim, "off-the-sauce" look). No wedding reception, no honeymoon. "Too old-fashioned," explained a p.r. man. "These are a couple of mod kids...
...freely elected Presidents, and no dictator has ever been able to shoulder his way to power. It also established the most complete and extravagant welfare system of any country in the Americas. Uruguay's wealth, however, was based almost exclusively on continued world demand for meat and wool. When that demand slackened in the earlier '60s because of competition elsewhere, Uruguay began piling up a trade deficit that reached $12.6 million in 1967, a huge amount by Uruguayan standards. The country's swollen bureaucracy, which employs 21% of the nation's 1,000,000-man work...