Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout high school Bianchi had one obsession: to become a policeman. He studied police science at Monroe Community College in New York but dropped out before finishing. He tried to find a job as a policeman in up state New York and failed. When he moved to Los Angeles in 1975, he sought, again in vain, for police jobs while living with his cousin, Angelo Buono, 44. Finally, Bianchi got a position at a land title company, but he pretended to colleagues that he was an undercover cop on the side. He carried an attache case in which he kept...
...small measure of what's on the nation's collective mind is the cause that celebrities choose to back. Last week in New York City, the glitterati got together to help buy bulletproof vests for the city's police. The vests are needed-in the past twelve months, six officers have been shot to death in the line of duty-but the financially strapped city claims it cannot afford them...
...timely arrival on the scene settled the situation and possibly saved American lives. On the other hand, some American reporters in Iran worry about the stridency of Yazdi's public statements. In an address last week to the police academy he denounced "Zionist newspapers like the New York Times and TIME" for denigrating Khomeini, adding that Zionism was "one of the greatest enemies of our revolutionary movement...
...district court in North Carolina that the state has "a higher level of desegregation than most other institutions of higher education North and South." Last fall its predominantly white campuses had a greater percentage of black students than Harvard (6% vs. 5.02%) and the State University of New York (5.2%). At U.N.C.'s Chapel Hill campus, blacks in professional programs such as medicine and law make up 9.2% of enrollment...
...until late 1976, when Suzzy left college and the women formed a trio, that the Roches began to appear again. They sang Christmas carols, played troubadours for small change at train stations, began to be noticed on the relay of folk-oriented clubs around New York...