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Even law-and-order advocates sometimes find their sensibilities offended by that most unstable adjunct of police work, the informer. Trained from childhood to disparage tattletales, Americans have hardly a decent word for those who give information to authorities. The glossary runs to such pejorative nouns as fink, stoolie, rat, canary, squealer. In some police argot they are snitches. Yet no major police force can operate without some of the shady types who will go where cops seldom can, perhaps to a meeting of conspirators, or do what cops won't, for example, shoot heroin before a cautious pusher...
Before games this past season, the nine-man squad held small, self-conscious debates over who would show his face on the court first. As for pep talks, they have been abandoned by Joseph Fink, an entomologist who became coach two years ago after the original choice failed to show up. "I used to try to give them a pep talk, but it made them nervous," says Fink. "One boy started shaking and dropped a cup of water all over the place...
...Coach Fink is frankly puzzled by Friendsville's losing streak. He has read all the books on coaching, he explains, and has consulted with all of the coaches from neighboring schools -to no avail. As he watched his team prepare for last week's game, Fink may well have provided the answer. "They don't know what it is like to win," he said sadly. "Consequently, they don't know...
...Arthur Fink, a graduate student and a volunteer for the American Friends Service Committee, narrated "The Automated Battlefield," a NEARMIC slide presentation which depicts camouflaged anti-personnel mines, bombs guided by television signals, and helicopters equipped for sighting targets at night which have been designed to compensate for the reduction of actual American fighting manpower...
Helicopters equipped with infra-red sighting which were designed for use in Vietnam have already been used in domestic police work, Fink said, and one Pentagon associate has suggested the use of electronic signal bracelets and tracking equipment to watch over released convicts, parolees and prisoners on bail...