Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco police department began hostage-negotiating courses in 1974. Since then its graduates have faced 15 major hostage incidents-and saved all the victims without firing a shot. The emphasis in the program is on psychology; the key rule is to stay cool. About 75% of the officers seeking to attend the program have been turned down because they show signs of inability to handle the extraordinary stress of a hostage situation...
...women to lie on. They collected newspapers and vinyl wallpaper to cover the women at night. They made the men give us their suit jackets. They were careful about people who needed medicine. They told the young girls who got a little hysterical to 'just be cool...
...acted like a fire brigade. [In 1971] Chairman Mao continually advised the Premier on how to deal with such clashes, but Mao's ideas were not easily carried out. During the peak of the crisis she flew to the side of the Premier several times to help "cool things down." Constant threats, divisiveness among the people, and conspiratorial actions made it almost impossible for them to work-even at their home at Chung-nan-hai, which had also become infiltrated by the enemy. Nor could they sleep or eat there safely. Just to survive the Chairman and their defenders...
...Hers will be a more personal memoir, a candid look at her struggle to balance her roles as public figure, wife and mother. No unseemly family rivalry is likely: the double contract with Co-Publishers Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest will yield the two Fords a cool $1 million...
...Schtewart has been rescheduled until April 15 (taxes!), so cool your buns...