Word: springly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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UNTIL the spring of 1968, Renault Robinson was considered a model policeman. After four years on the Chicago force, he had a 97% efficiency rating and had won more than 50 citations for outstanding work. Then Robinson and seven other black policemen formed the Afro-American Patrolmen's League, an organization aimed at improving police service to the black community and at getting more blacks into policymaking positions in the department. Robinson has been suspended five times since; anonymous telephone callers have repeatedly threatened his life and those of his wife and three children. He is now up before...
...Gaulle's narrow victory in the 1965 presidential election should have warned him that his popularity was not boundless. He shrugged off the growing disorders in early spring of 1968 to fly off for a chat with Rumania's Nicolae Ceauşescu. While he was being feted in Bucharest, much of France erupted in chaos, as students battled police and striking workers seized plants. Shaken, De Gaulle returned and, after making certain of the army's support, finally rallied his country. After a ringing speech ("I shall not withdraw. I have a mandate from the people...
...trial. The penalty will be reduced by two more years as a result of a recent general amnesty, and another amnesty is expected in a couple of years. Moreover, he can get time off for good behavior. There is also a possibility that he will be free by next spring, for if the court does not respond to his appeal within six months, he will have to be released on "provisional liberty" until the court gets around to replying. Future skyjackers could hardly be discouraged by the leniency shown Minichiello. Had Minichiello faced the Marine court-martial for his original...
Crone will have to pass well against the Bulldogs' stingy secondary, or else he will be unable to spring the running game which hinges on fullback Tom Miller and halfback Ted DeMars...
Moynihan announced last summer his plans to return to his post at the School of Education at the beginning of the Spring term, when his two-year-leave of absence would expire. Under a Faculty rule, any Faculty member seeking a longer leave of absence must obtain permission from President Pusey...