Aiming high
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Aiming high

Associated Press · September 7, 1972

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Deborah Andrews, 21, spends 10-20 minutes a day doing stretch and pull exercises hoping to grow one-quarter inch to meet the 5-foot-8 minimum height requirement for patrolmen. She wants to become Tampa's first woman to pound a beat. But civil service says even if she meets the requirement, there's no job classification for patrolwoman.

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